Description

HAWKHURST HIGH STREET
TQ 7430-7530 (south side)

16/351
Iddenden

GV II
House. C15 and clad C17-C18, with C20 extensions to rear. Timber framed and clad with painted brick on sandstone base,with some exposed late studding to rear with rendered infill. Plain tiled roof. End jettied hall house in origin. Two storeys with hipped roof and gablet, and stack to centre right. Two-light,
4-light and 3-light leaded casements on each floor and all at decreasing heights
from left to right. Boarded door to centre left in gabled porch. Catslide out-
shot to rear, and glazed pentice to C20 wing in matching materials and scale.
Interior: soot blackened crown post roof, the principal crown post now truncated
and to the end left of the present house, the bay or bays beyond now missing.
Arched braced and double chamfered cambered tie beam of large scantling. The end
right bay represents the parlour end of the hall house, originally end jettied on
internal evidence, with the lapped board panelling and dern-headed parlour door
surviving, with moulded and brattished dais beam and mortice for a short project-
ing length of this beam and wall to screen off the parlour door. Finely moulded
beams throughout, the double wave chamfer being raised with a fillet to the run-
out. Staggered, small canted C17 fireplaces. Much lathe and plaster internal
walling survives.

Listing NGR: TQ7487430630

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608860

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)