TR 14 SE LYMINGE LONGAGE HILL (south-west side) 4/153 Longage Farm (formerly listed 29.12.66 as Longage Manor) GV II Farmhouse. Early C17, with later alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick except left side of wing, which is red and grey brick in Flemish bond. First floor tile-hung. Rear elevation small red and grey bricks in a mixed bond. Plain tile roof. Main range of 4 timber-framed bays; two to centre forming principal room, one short bay to left end, and another (probably originally a stack bay) to right. Cross-wing to right, of 3 timber-framed bays, projecting slightly to front and rear. 2 storeys. Continuous jetty to main range, returned to left on moulded dragon post, and again to rear; underbuilt to left end and rear. Wing jettied to front and long right side, with scrolled, carved bracket to front right corner, and another to rear end of right side. Main- range roof gabled to left, hipped down to wing to right. Wing roof hipped to front and rear with gablet. Slender projecting C19 brick stack to left gable end. C19 or C20 ridge stack to centre of main range, and similarly late stack towards front of wing. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one three-light casement to left end bay, one towards centre and one to wing, and one two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right end of main range. Ribbed and boarded door in beaded rectangular architrave to right end of wing. Two-storey turret with hipped roof, in rear angle between main range and wing. Interior: former principal room of main range has ceiling divided into six panels by moulded cross beam and tenoned axial beams. Right and left end beams of room also moulded. Chamfered dragon beams to left end room. First-floor partition with tension braces between left end and principal rooms. Former two-bay rear room of wing has ovolo- moulded cross and axial beams, with panelled soffits, dividing ceiling into nine panels. Front room ceiling similarly divided, into six panels. Similar arrangement to first floor. Clasped-purlin roof to main range, with principal rafters trenched over purlins and with lower tier of aligned butt purlins. Similar roof to wing, but with lower ridge and without lower tier of purlins. Listing NGR: TR1555942064