FRITTENDEN HEADCORN ROAD TQ 8041-8141 (east side) 13/22 Charity Cottages GV II Cottage row. C15 to C16. Timber framed and part exposed close studding with large panel framing to left return, all with plaster infill. Part tile hung. Underbuilt with red brick. Plain tiled roof. A 4-framed bay hall house in origin with jettied cross-wing and framed rear-wing; the whole an impressively large framed building in its final state. Two storeys on plinth, with jetty to right on moulded brackets and with moulded bressummer. Hipped roof with gablets to left and to transverse, projecting hip at right. Stacks to left, and moulded and clustered to centre right, and offset and moulded to rear left. Blocked mullioned windows ranged under eaves to left hand bays, and, unblocked, to jettied wing. Irregular 5 wooden casements on each floor, with blocked moulded mullioned windows to jettied wing. Boarded doors to left, to centre with flat hood and to right. The size, quality and layout of the building, with long ranges of eaves-windows, suggest a connection with the medieval cloth trade. Listing NGR: TQ8157641289