Description

ULCOMBE CRUMPS LANE TQ 84 NW (south side) 5/180 Kingsnorth Manor Farmhouse 26.4.68 II*

Farmhouse. Late, C16 with early C17 addition. Timber framed, left range rendered, right wing with exposed close-studding and plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attics on stone plinth, with cellar under wing. Right cross-wing projects forwards; jettied to first floor and attic on moulded bressumers with shaped brackets. Plain bargeboards to gable. Roof of left range half-hipped to left and abuts cross-wing to right. Multiple brick ridge stack with fillets, in front slope of roof off-centre to left of left range. Slender stack to right side of wing. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one 3-light casement to left of stack, and one 4-light to right. Cross-wing has 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window to first floor, on shaped brackets, with moulded cill and cornice, and single side lights. Internal evidence for frieze windows to each side. Ground floor of wing has 4-light leaded casement with evidence for 3-light frieze window each side. 3-light attic casement. Ribbed door under late C19/early C20 open wooden porch to right end of left range. Interior: Exposed timbers. Moulded beams. Stairs with octagonal newel-post from ground floor to attic. Aligned butt purlin roof with windbraces to wing. Clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters and windbraces to left range. [Illustrated in K. Gravett, Timber and Brick Buildings in Kent, 1971].

Listing NGR: TQ8485147535

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