Description

BARN HILL
TQ 75 SW HUNTON
(East Side)
2/59 Oast House Cottage
and Weavers
II
House, formerly oasthouse, now house. Early C17. Wing dated 1623.
Converted to oasthouse in C19. Restored in 1980s. Timber framed.
Chequered red and grey brick to ground floor of main range, first floor
rendered. Red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor of cross-wing,
exposed framing with plaster infilling to first floor. Rear section stone
on ground floor, weatherboarded above. Plain tile roofs. Main range of
approximately 3 timber-framed bays. Cross-wing to right of 3 timber-
framed bays, projecting to rear. Stair turret in angle between main range
and wing. Timber-framed section of one bay at right-angles to rear
of wing,parallel to and adjoining stair turret and possibly with C16 or
earlier core. Main range 2 storeys, wing 2 storeys and attic. Gable of
attic jettied on carved brackets to front and rear, with carved pendants
to tie-beam ends. Rear tie-beam carved. Front beam, bargeboards and
pendant formerly carved, now plain. Carved bargeboards and tie-beam to
stair turret. Multiple brick ridge stack to right end of main range.
Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; two 2-light casements and one 3-light
to main range, and one 12-light canted mullioned-and transomed C20 oriel
window with coved base to wing, re-using C17 mortices. Boarded door with
flat bracketed hood beneath stack, and boarded door with cambered head to
centre of gable end of wing. Wing formerly dated 1623 on carved gable-end
jetty bressumer. Interior: exposed framing. Former bargeboard embedded
in wall of wing. (K. Gravett, Timber and Brick Building in Kent, 1971.)

Listing NGR: TQ7238350782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554400

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