Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY

6/33 Cowden

II

Former farmhouse. Circa late C16 with a probably C18 addition. Framed
construction; peg-tile roof; stacks with brick shafts.

Plan: North facing. The original arrangement was a 2-cell lobby entrance
main block with 2 principal rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in the
axial stack with a short, unheated rear right (south west) wing. A rear
outshut is secondary and extends across the end of the wing as well as the
rear (south) of the main range. A one-room plan addition has been added at
the right (west) end of the main block, heated from an end stack with a
further C20 addition, slightly set back, at the extreme right end. The
present stair rises from the centre room within the one-room plan addition.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front. The framing, which is
intact and exposed to sole plate level, includes one tension brace and a
section of presumably secondary close studding at first floor level. The
right end addition also appears to be framed but has no middle rail and the
studs may be false. Probably C20 gabled framed porch to the lobby entrance to
left of centre; half-glazed C19 or C20 door at the right end. Various
casement and sash windows of different dates including a 2-light raking dormer
above the porch, 2 3-light iron casements on the first floor with quadrant
catches and a 16-pane sash to ground floor left. Roof hipped at ends and
carried down as a catslide over the rear outshut. Axial stack with staggered
paired shafts. The outshut has a left (east) end stack. The rear wing is
tile-hung with a half-hipped roof.

Interior: The centre room has an exposed crossbeam and open fireplace with a
chamfered lintel. The left hand room has a plain plastered ceiling and open
fireplace with a chamfered lintel and blocked keeping place. The wall-framing
is exposed on the first floor with jowled wall posts and large tension braces
to the crossframes at each end of the chamber over the centre room. This is
heated. The fireplace lintel is moulded and may be a section of re-sited dais
beam from another building. A blocked mullioned first floor window on the
rear wall is now enclosed by the rear outshut.

Roof: Staggered butt purlin construction with straight braces from the centre
of each collar to the principal rafters of each truss.

Listing NGR: TQ6845040939

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541135

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)