Listed Building: CAPSTONE FARMHOUSE (1268251)

CHATHAM TQ76NE CAPSTONE ROAD, Hale 762-1/8/83 (East side) 29/10/52 Capstone Farmhouse II House. Mid C15, partly rebuilt mid C20. Timber-framed and rendered with C20 brickwork, left-of-centre brick ridge stack rebuilt C20, and a hipped tiled roof. STYLE: Wealden type house. PLAN: central hall plan with right-hand storeyed chamber and left-hand service range rebuilt c1800; hall stack and floor inserted late C16. EXTERIOR: 2 storey, 3-window range. Originally a recessed central hall with jettied end ranges, that to the left rebuilt, the former hall has overhanging eaves with curved braces from each end, the left-hand one sitting on a curved bracket; a left-hand C20 door, and 2 large C17 timber 6-light mullion and transom windows with leaded lights inserted into the middle and right-hand sections c1966. 3-light mullion casements, with ovolo mouldings to the centre and right, and a small hipped dormer. Rear lean-to. INTERIOR: the former hall has a wide left-hand late C16 fireplace with small recesses in the back and a right-hand bread oven, a late C16 inserted floor with moulded axial beam; morticing and studs to C15 partition wall indicating positions of ground-floor door and ladder stair to first-floor chamber; upper end has heavy flat barefaced joists tenoned into the axial beam. The first floor has rear jowl posts, with smoke blackening toward the hall on the outer posts, with the moulded, curved braces to the central tie beam removed, and an octagonal king post with moulded base and cap and 4 arch braces to the ridge (not visible). Late C16 rear casements have diagonal bars and ovolo mouldings. A good Wealden type house with many surviving original details. (Quiney A: Kent Houses: Woodbridge: 1993-). Listing NGR: TQ7822865152