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The Poult House

A Grade II Listed Building in Hadlow, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2233 / 51°13'23"N

Longitude: 0.3067 / 0°18'24"E

OS Eastings: 561174

OS Northings: 149650

OS Grid: TQ611496

Mapcode National: GBR NQ6.6C7

Mapcode Global: VHHQ1.8JH2

Plus Code: 9F3268F4+8M

Entry Name: The Poult House

Listing Date: 19 February 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1363144

English Heritage Legacy ID: 179444

ID on this website: 101363144

Location: Pittswood, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, TN11

County: Kent

District: Tonbridge and Malling

Civil Parish: Hadlow

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Hadlow

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


HADLOW ASHES LANE, PITTS WOOD
TQ 64 NW
6/8 The Poult House

II


House. Mid/late C17 with various C19 and C20 modernisations and some
extensions. White-washed English bond brick with some tile-hung timber
framing; brick stacks and chimneyshafts, the kitchen staggered chimneyshaft is
original; peg-tile roof.

Plan: L-plan house. The main block faces south east and has a 2-room plan.
An axial stack between serves the larger left room, the original parlour.
Front lobby entrance and winder stair rises to rear of the stack. The smaller
right room has a projecting end stack. This is a C19 addition. The room was
formerly an unheated service room. One-room plan kitchen block projects at
right angles to rear of the parlour. It has a gable-end stack, C20 flat-
roofed extensions to rear of kitchen and set back to right of main block and
single-storey extension in angle of 2 wings with lateral stack.

Main house is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front of various C20 casements, the latest
with rectangular leaded glass effect and ground floor left a C20 French
window. C19 gabled brick porch contains a C19 part-glazed 6-panel door. Tall
roof is half-hipped both ends. Left end wall has 3 C20 French windows.

Interior: The structure of the C17 house is essentially intact. The brick
fireplaces of the kitchen and parlour are large with plain oak lintels. The
former service room axial beam is chamfered with scroll stops. The kitchen
crossbeam is plain chamfered and the parlour crossbeam and joists are
chamfered with scroll stops, some irregularities in the joisting here suggest
that there may have been a small lobby between kitchen and parlour. Similar
carpentry on the first floor and roof carried on collared tie-beam trusses
with butt purlins. Some early joinery detail such as the 2-panel door between
kitchen and parlour. However most joinery detail is C19 and C20.


Listing NGR: TQ6117449650

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