Description

TQ 64 SW PEMBURY MAIDSTONE ROAD
(south side)
5/388 Nos 1,2, and 3, Hawkwell
Cottages
25.11.88
GV II

Row of 3 cottages. The main part was built as a farmhouse, it was, it is
said, later used as a public house, and finally divided into 3 cottages.
Mid/late C16, enlarged when divided into cottages in the mid/late C19.
Timber-framed, partly underbuilt with C19 and C20 facing bond brick, above
first floor level main block is timber-framed and clad with peg-tile, rear
blocks are plastered and part, at least, is timber-framed; original stack may
be timber-framed, others are mid/late C19 brick and all have brick
chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Row of 3 cottages set back from the road and facing north north west,
say north. They are numbered 1-3 from right (west) to left. The row is 4
rooms wide and 2 rooms deep. No 1 has the right front and back rooms, No 2
has the centre 2 front and back rooms and No 3 has the left end front and back
rooms. The front end rooms have projecting end stacks and the front room left
of centre has an axial stack backing onto the left end room. The left rear
room is unheated, all the others have rear end stacks. All three cottages
have principal rooms in the front block and service rooms behind.
The C16 house takes up the 3-room section to left, the front rooms of Nos 2
and 3. It was probably a lobby entrance plan house. Only the centre room was
heated originally. The left end room (No 3) ceiling was raised circa 1700 and
the attic floor removed.

House is 2 storeys with disused attics over No 2.

Exterior: Regular 4-window front of various late C19 and C20 casements mostly
with glazing bars. All 3 cottages have plain plank front doors and the No 2
doorway has a segmental brick arch over. All have C20 gabled porches. Brick
is exposed at ground floor level in front of Nos 1 and 2 but No 3 is
completely tile-hung (including the end wall). The main roof is gable-ended
and each of the rear extensions has a gable-ended crossroof.

Interior: The structural carpentry of the C16 house is well-preserved and
shows even on the ground floor. On the first floor it has curving tension
braces and includes a couple of blocked windows with diamond mullions. The
main room (in No 2) has a roughly chamfered crossbeam towards the chimney
breast and a similarly finished axial beam the other side. The fireplace is
blocked but its oak lintel is exposed. The left end room (No 3) also has a
roughly-finished crossbeam but this one is thought to date circa 1700. It is
set above the main rail which includes a large disused mortise in the back
wall, thought to be for the original crossbeam. The winder stair in this room
rises alongside the main stack and has an old (probably circa 1700) plank door
and another to the cupboard below the stair is hung on butterfly hinges. The
roof was accessible only in No 2 and is carried on the much-mended remains of
the original roof; collared tie-beam trusses with evidence of clasped side
purlins, queen struts and curving windbraces. The front room of No 1 is part
of the C19 alterations and has plain carpentry detail and a firpelace with a
segmental brick arch. The crosswall between this room and No 2 was until 1988
still clad with weatherboards. The C19 roof was not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ6365742895

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546111

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