Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY CRITTENDEN ROAD

6/55 Gedges Farmhouse including
wall forming north east
Boundary of the garden
GV II

Farmhouse. Early C19 with late C19 extension and further extension and some
internal refurbishment of 1987. Flemish bond brick with a slate roof and
brick stacks.

Plan: The house faces north with a garden entrance on the east side. The
early C19 plan was double depth, 2-rooms wide with an entrance on the north
side into a passage from which the stairs rise. Principal rooms on the front,
facing north, rear right service room, probably originally consisting of
kitchen and butler's pantry, rear left morning room, facing east. The garden
entrance on the east side now leads directly into the morning room but
probably opened into a passage. The basic plan of the early C19 is still
intact, although room use has changed and some doors and partitions have been
altered. In the later C19 the house was extended to the rear (south) by an L-
plan addition, probably extending the provision of service rooms. The
addition is in a sympathetic style with sash windows. A 1987 conservatory has
been added at the rear left (south east). Brick boundary wall to the garden
is C19 and included in the listing.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay north front with a plinth and deep
eaves on paired eaves brackets. 5 steps up to an early C19 6-panel front door
with reeded pilasters, flanked by 6-pane fixed windows. C20 nowy-headed porch
with a projecting hood carried on plain columns. Early C19 windows all with
rubbed brick voussoirs. 3 first floor 12-pane sashes, 2 similar ground floor
sashes set in round-headed recesses with rubbed brick arches, the recesses
descending to the ground. The left (east) return of the house is 3-bays plus
a fourth bay of the later C19 build at the left (south) end. Early C19
central doorway with a 2-leaf half-glazed C20 outer door and a gabled porch
hood carried on shaped brackets. The inner door has a fanlight with spoke
glazing bars. Flanking the front door are 2 late C19 or early C20 canted bay
windows with hipped roofs and transomed windows. The centre first floor
window is an early C19 12-pane sash with rubbed brick voussoirs, first floor
window right is a C20 V-shaped oriel on a moulded bracket. A change in the
brickwork indicates the C19 addition at the left (south) end, this has a
similar 12-pane first floor sash and, below it, a 1987 door. C20 conservatory
addition at the left (south) end. The west elevation has one late C19/early
C20 canted bay, matching those on the east, and various C19 and C20 small-pane
sash windows. C20 door to the right (south). Hipped roof.

Interior: Early C19 joinery survives including doors with reeded doorcases
and a stick baluster stair with a wreathed mahogany handrail.

Listing NGR: TQ6606842996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541305

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