GOUDHURST RANTERS LANE TQ 73 NW (east side) 5/246 Risebridge Risebridge Farmhouse GV II* House. Late C16. Timber framed and exposed close studding with plaster infill, tile hung return elevations, on red brick ground floor. Plain tiled roof. Unusually long house of 7 framed bays; lobby entry. Two storeys on plinth with half-hipped roof and with stacks to centre and to right. Six C20 casements on 1st floor with moulded mullioned window to centre left,and 6 irregularly sized casements to ground floor. Central plank and stud door of same age with flat hood on brackets. The main posts with mortice holes at consistent heights possibly indicating braced principals for a lean-to bressummer raised to right (this end bay jettied certainly to right return originally). Moulded mullioned window to right return 1st floor. Catslide outshot interrupted by 2 half-hipped wings to rear. Interior: fully framed interior, the timbers of good scantling and excellent finish, chamfered with stops throughout. Queen strut roof with diminished principals and wind braces. The rafters are worked into a slight rounded arch to the inner angle of the apex, the purlins are all stop-chamfered between principals. Stack with very large inglenook with moulded stone jambs and large moulded wooden bressummer with enriched spandrels. Large moulded stone and timber upper fireplaces with four-centred arched heads. Several mullioned windows survive, some with ovolo and fillet moulded mullions and shutter grooves. Early doors, oak floor boards and reset newel stair survive, with portion of parlour screen, moved from its original position screening off the jettied south end, with a primitive linenfold decoration. Listing NGR: TQ7138636736