Description

SPOT LANE
TQ 75 SE OTHAM
(South-East side)
3/236 The Orchard Spot
Public House
GV II

House, now public house. C15, with late C16 or early C17 and C19
alterations and addition. Timber framed. Front elevation rendered in
C19, with one first-floor tension brace exposed. First floor of left
gable end close-studded. Plain tile roof. Wealden, of four timber-
framed bays; 2 roughly equal-length open hall bays and storeyed end bays.
2 storeys, on painted stone plinth. Right and left end bays formerly
jettied to front, jetties returning along gable ends; all underbuilt
in C19 except that to left gable end. Arch braces to flying wall-plate
and solid bracket under central tie. Hipped roof with gablets. Projecting
rendered stack towards rear of left gable end and truncated slightly-
projecting painted stack towards front. Hall stack not visible above
ridge. Irregular fenestration of 3 small wooden casements; one 2-light
to left bay, another to right hall bay, and one single-light to left
hall bay. No windows to right end bay. Hollow-chamfered 4-centred
arched door architrave with hollow spandrels to left end of hall;
boarded door to left side of a small lobby created behind the architrave.
Single-bay C19 addition to rear of right end bay; this, and right gable
end of Wealden, formed into C19 entrance front with regular fenestration
of 3 casements to first floor, canted ground-floor bay windows, and
central half-glazed door under Doric porch. Interior: only ground floor
inspected. Exposed framing of heavy scantling, including beams and
broad, close-set joists to end bays. Two 4-centred-arched hollow-
chamfered service doorways with hollow spandrels, and similar 4-centred
arched rear doorway to cross-passage. Doubly hollow-chamfered central
truss posts. Moulded end-of-hall beams, that to right brattished, and
with close-studded partition under it. Hollow-chamfered hall window
cills to front and rear of right hall bay, that to rear with blocked
8-light diamond-mullion window between it and midrail. Substantial
plain-chamfered late C16 or early C17 inserted cross-beam and axial beam
and bevelled joists to right hall bay. Fireplace with plain stone jambs
and cambered bressumer, backing on to cross-passage. Formerly known as
Otham Grove.

Listing NGR: TQ7941354309

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542984

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)