Description

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM THE ROW
(east side)

9/60 Elham Manor
(formerly listed
29.12.66 under Cullen's
Hill, as The
Manor House)

GV II*

House. Early C16 orearlier, with late C18 alterations. Timber-
framed with rendered infilling. First floor of left hall bay and left
gable end clad with darkened weatherboarding. First floor of left
side and rear gable end of wing clad with broad bands of plain and
fishscale tiles. Plain tile roof. Wealden, of which short left
hall bay, two,storeyed,left end bays and rear left return wing survive.
Built on a corner site. 2 storeys and cellar. Plinth or cellar wall
to left side, of irregular blocks of galleted ragstone and sandstone
on a base of roughly-coursed flints, increasing in depth with slope of
land to rear. Blocked rectangular cellar light. Continuous jetty with
moulded fascia board and moulded solid-spandrel brackets to two
storeyed left end bays, returning along left side and again round rear
gable end of wing on moulded dragon posts. Close-studding to ground
floor of front elevation and left return. Broadly-spaced studding
with tension braces to first floor of front elevation and ground floor
of rear gable end. Weatherboarded coving under flying wall-plate.
Steeply-pitched roof hipped to left. Rear section of left return has
slightly lower eaves and ridge, roof hipped to rear. Red brick stack
to rear of left end bay at junction with wing, with ovolo-moulded
cornice and four flues. Red brick ridge stack to left end of left
hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; none to left hall
bay, one three-light leaded casement to first left storeyed bay,
and canted oriel through- dormer, on single, scrolled strapwork bracket,
with pedimented plain-tiled gable and two-light casement and side-lights,
to storeyed left end bay. Canted bay window with painted brick base
and two-light leaded window to each storeyed end bay. Left return
elevation unpierced save for three small two-light leaded casements;
one to first floor and two to ground floor. Broad ribbed and studded
door occupying most of ground floor of left hall bay, with moulded
and enriched C17 cornice. Half-glazed door with two fielded panels
and moulded and finely-dentilled wooden cornice to rear gable end of
wing. Further two-storey weatherboarded rear wing towards centre,
abutting right side of left wing and with hipped plain tile roof.
Interior not inspected. See also Manor House Cottage, adjoining to
right and probably replacing right end of Wealden.

Listing NGR: TR1757743936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546071

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)