Description

TICEHURST

1917/0/10058 DALE HILL
27-JUL-04 Old Farm

II
House, formerly farmhouse. Constructed in the late C17 or early C18 but reusing C16 or earlier timbers from buildings on the Whiligh estate. Ground floor refronted in brick and refenestrated in early C19 and C20.
EXTERIOR: Timberframed, ground floor refronted in English bond brickwork with tile-hung first floor. Tiled roof, hipped to one end and half-hipped to the other two sides. L-shaped plan. Two storeys with two irregular windows. The two windows on the entrance front are C19 cast iron casements.
INTERIOR: Much exposed timber, including a Drawing Room with wooden bressumer with evidence for a cooking fitting, reused moulded oak spine beam and early C18 wall-framing. The kitchen has a reused girder as a bressumer. The first floor has corner posts with mid C18 curved profile and a bedroom at the south western end has a late C17 or early C18 small panel wall frame but a C16 reused central set girder with half-formed stave holes. The roof over the southern range has pegged rafters without ridgepiece and purlins.
A substantially intact late C17 or early C18 house containing some interesting earlier reused timbers.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670352

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)