Description

KEMSING KEMSING
1.
5280
High Street
(south side)
TQ 5558 16/570
Nos 1 and 2
(Wybourne Cottages)
II
The entry shall be amended to read:
House, subdivided into 2 cottages. Circa C15, remodelled in late C16 or early
C17, extended and divided in C18 or Cl9 and restored in late C20. Timber-framed,
partly rebuilt in brick and with some concrete block rebuilding. Hipped and
gable-ended. Plain red tile roof. Brick gable end and axial stacks with brick
shafts.
Plan: Situated on a north-south axis the original circa C15 house is the west
range comprising 3 timber-framed bays of which the 2 right hand (north) bays
(no 1) were open to the roof, a Crown-post roof, the surviving Crown-post of
which is not smoke blackened. The left hand (north) bay (no 2) might have been
the service end and screens passage but this is conjectural. Probably in the
late C16 or early C17 the 2 right hand bays were floored, possibly at the same
time as the right hand (north) bay was extended at the front (east) with a fire-
place on its left (south) side. The left hand (north) bay was altered, possibly
in the late C17 and a shallow extension was built at the back containing a large
stack. The left (south) bay of the original house was also extended at the
front (east) and a single-storey outshut inserted between the 2 front (east) pro-
jections at a later unknown date, possibly when the house was divided into 2
cottages. The outshut was heightened to 2 storeys in the late C20 when the
house was extensively restored including the rebuilding of some of the walls
and the removal and resetting of the roof structure.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. The north front of No 1 has an asymmetrical
2 window elevation; rebuilt in red brick on the ground floor and close studding
on the first floor; C20 2-light casements with glazing bars and central C20
plank door. C20 hipped former at centre. The right hand (west) elevation has
Flemish bond brick on the ground floor with blue headers (the left hand section
is stretcher bond brick) and close studding on the first floor, with plaster
infilling and blocked 4-light window with hollow chamfered mullions. The gable
to right projects and has some random bond brick on the ground floor and light
scantling vertical studding above.
The left hand (east) elevation is under a 3-span hipped roof with a small C20
hipped dormer in the central span; the first floor is tile-hung and the ground
floor is red brick (partly in Flemish bond). An asymmetrical arrangement of
C20 2-light casements and doorway to right of centre with a C20 panelled door
and C20 open porch. To the left a C20 brick outshut.
The rear (south) elevation brick ground floor and applied timber framing, to
rendered concrete blocks above; asymmetrical fenestration of C20 2-light casements
and C20 plank door to right with C20 open porch. Small tile-hung hipped dormer
high up in roof to left.
Interior: No 1: dividing the 2 bays a moulded ceiling beam with 2 rolls in
a wide hollow chamfer and large hollow stops. Above this beam on the first
floor a chamfered cambered tie-beam with curved brackets to the wall posts.
The tie-beam supports an octagonal Crown-post with a moulded capital and base
(2 rolls to the Capital and 1 to the base). The Crown-post has arched braces
to the collar and collar purlin. The common rafters have been replaced. The
left (south) side of the central bay has a moulded beam in the party wall of
the 2 houses. The front (east) wing has a large brick fireplace with a Tudor
arch timber lintel with recessed spandrels and rough unchamfered beams. It
is now one room with that to the west the right hand bay of the original house
which has chamfered ceiling beams with hollow step stops.
No 2 has a large brick fireplace in the west wall with a rough timber lintel
and an exposed mid-rail (now a ceiling beam) with mortices for diamond-section
mullions. None of the original roof survives over No 2.

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KEMSING KEMSING
1.
5280
High Street
(South Side)
Nos 1 & 2
(Wybourne Cottages)
TQ 5558 16/570
II
2.
C16. 2 storeys and attic, 2 windows to road. Hipped tmled roof with a hipped
dormer. Tile hung 1st floor, brick ground floor, of C19. Square paned casements
with external box shutters. 4-panel door under bracketed gabled hood. On right
return close studded timber, with plaster filling, on 1st floor. Also original
diagonal-mullioned window, now filled with plaster.

Listing NGR: TQ5563658640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549603

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