HAWKHURST WATER LANE TQ 73 SE (west side) 10/471 Tour Wents and Four Wents Cottage GV II House, sometime Inn, now house pair. C15, altered C16 and c.1681. Timber framed and exposed with plaster infill, part clad on ground floor with red brick, sandstone and weather boarding, with return elevation part tile hung. Plain tiled roof. Hall house and cross-wing origin. Two storeys and attic on plinth, with small panel frame to end left bay, and ground floor, close studded to right on 1st flor. Jettied to right hand bays and returned to right end left bay recessed. Hipped roof overall with gablets and 2 hipped dormers. Stacks to centre left and clustered to right on return wing. Four wooden casements on each floor of irregular sizes and boarded doors to right in gabled porch, and to left in large gabled porch with sandstone base, side lights and painted plaster lozenge decoration in gable and date: B C E 1681. Interior: (Four Vents only): Stack with sandstone base, inglenook and in-situ domed bread oven. Crown post roof with tall, unmoulded posts braced eccentrically to collar purlin and tie beams, all soot blackened. The building may have originated as a Wealden with single jettied wing (ie combined service/solar) extended at lower end by close studded and continuous jettied cross-wing. Listing NGR: TQ7659032775