Description

TQ 54 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (north side),
SPELDHURST
12/583 Lower Church Farmhouse

GV II

Former farmhouse, row of 2 houses. Late C16/early C17, enlarged in the late
C18/early C19, small late C19 extension, some circa 1980 modernisation.
Timber-framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with Flemish bond red brick.
Framing above is hung with peg-tile. Brick stacks and chimneyshafts. Peg-
tile roof.

Plan: House faces south west. It is 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep with
central front staircase. Left frot room has a projecting gable-end stack.
Axial stack between rear rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces. Present
entrance through late C19 entrance porch on left end, possibly replacing an
earlier one on the front. However the front rooms were added in the late
C18/early C19 in front of a late C16/early C17 2-room lobby entrance plan
farmhouse, probably with integral rear outshots. Right front and back rooms
are now divided off from rest as a separate house.

2 storeys with attics in roofspace of the older part and probably late
C16/early C17 lean-to outshots to rear. Cellars below.

Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front. The right 2-window
section is of late C18/early C19 16-pane sashes, the ground floor ones with
low segmental brick arches over. Left first floor window is a contemporary
-timber casement containing an iron-framed casement and rectangular panes of
leaded glass. 2 left ground floor windows are C20 csements with glazing bars.
Present main entrance through late C19 porch on left end contains a 4-panel
door with a small sash window alongside. 2 parallel roofs. Front roof is
gable-ended. Rear roof is steeply pitched and taller than the front one. It
is gable-ended to left and half-hipped to right and rear pitch continues down
over the outshots.

Interior: Only the left section was available for inspection at the time of
this survey. Late C16/early C17 work is confined to the rear. Rear left room
and chamber above have chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beams. Firepalces
rebuilt in the C20. Cellar below has walls of coursed sandstone (brick-walled
cellar under front). Attic floor is carried on a crossbeam below tie beam
level. Roof of rear block of 3 uneven bays; tie-beam trusses with clasped
side purlins and queen struts.

Listing NGR: TQ5542541663

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551440

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