Description

YALDING VICARAGE ROAD TQ 6950 (north side) (also known as The Green) 6/180 Cleaves Hall, Cleaves House and footpath between Cleaves Hall and Vicarage Road GV II

School, with schoolmaster's house, now parish hall and house. School and schoolmaster's house founded 1663 (or 1665) by William Cleave, haberdasher, of London, incorporating C15 or early C16 cross-wing. Late C17 or C18 rear bay. Late C19 additions to left and, of circa 1883, to right. Main range and cross-wing timber framed; ground floor red brick, first floor, and part of ground floor of wing, hung with fishscale tiles. First floor of wing rendered to rear. Plain tile roof. Mid C17 main range of 3 timber- framed bays. C15 or early C16 cross-wing to right of 2 short timber- framed bays projecting forwards slightly, and extended to rear by a further 2 timber-framed bays and rear end stack bay, probably to form schoolmaster's house in mid C17. Further timber-framed bay added to rear of stack bay in late C17 or C18. Main range 2 storeys and attics, right cross-wing two storeys. Front two bays of wing have ragstone plinth, and were formerly jettied to front and right side. Roof of main range gabled to left and hipped down to cross-wing to right. Cross-wing roof hipped with gablet to front, with lower eaves and ridge. Tall hexagonal louvred wooden bell cupola with leaded onion dome towards left end of main range. Multiple red-and grey brick stack to each end of main range, that to right end in front slope of roof. Ridge stack towards rear of wing. Two small gabled dormers with leaded two-light casements to main range. Irregular fenestration of 3 three-light leaded casements; two broadly-spaced to main range and one to front gable end of wing. Ribbed door to left end of main range, behind gabled C19 red brick porch up 3 steps, with four- centred arched rubbed brick outer doorway. Half-glazed door to Cleaves House, recessed behind C20 four-centred arched wooden architrave, to right end of main range. C19 addition projecting forwards to left, of one tall single storey, with brick below, and fishscale tiles above midrail, plain tile roof, crested ridge tiles, cylindrical ventilator, moulded bargeboards, nine-light mullioned and transomed window, and integral lean-tos to right and left. Three-storey c.1883 addition to right, with banded plain and fishscale tiles to upper storey, red brick to rest, plain tile roof, moulded bargeboards, red brick stack to left side, ridge stack towards rear, three-light second-floor casement, and four-light casement with segmental head to each lower storey. Interior: C15 or early C16 section has broad close-set joists and dragon beam to ground floor, gunstock-jowled posts, and chamfered central tie-beam with evidence for bracing and fillet. Main range has long shaped jowls to principal posts, staggered butt purlin roof, and exposed framing to rear wall with intermediate studs and two panels per storey. Axial row of three painted iron columns with palm-leaf capitals to centre of ground floor. C17 extension to wing with exposed framing, gunstock-jowled posts, and two brick fireplaces with wooden bressumers; roof not seen. Exposed arch-braced trusses to left C19 wing. Late C18 fireplace to ground floor of c.1883 wing, said to come from The Coach House, High Street, Yalding. Path of roughly-coursed stone setts, with stone verges, about 4 feet wide, and running about 40 feet between left porch of Cleaves Hall and Vicarage Road. School attended by Edmund Blunden until 1918.

Listing NGR: TQ6994450290

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