Description

LAMBERHURST SCHOOL HILL TQ 6636-6736 (west side) 8/218 Nos. 1, 2 & 3 The Charity GV II

House, now house row. C15, altered and extended C16 and early C18, reconditioned late C20. Timber framed and exposed with plaster infill and with plain tiled roof. Wealden plan of four framed bays in origin. Two storeys, basement and attic on plinth with underbuilt jetties to left and right end bays, with surviving jetty returned to right on dragon post. Half-hipped roof with 3 gabled dormers and stack to end right and large stack churner to centre left. Four light and 2 three light C20 casements on each floor and rib and stud doors to left, centre right and right. Basement opening in right return in high plinth. The right end bay is separately framed and possibly added when the hall was ceiled over, indicated by a panel of tension braced framing to upper left. the rest of the framing, now inappropriately exposed, is late in character and meant only as a ground to the destroyed rendered and sashed facade described in the old provisional list. The building was formerly used as the village workhouse.

Listing NGR: TQ6765136388

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)