HADLOW CHURCH STREET TQ 63 49 7/21 Church Place (formerly listed 20.lO.54 as The Kings Head Public House) GV II House, once used as a public house. C16, maybe late C15, origins, largely rebuilt in the mid C17, some C19 modernisation and renovated circa 1970. Essentially timber-framed but ground floor is underbuilt with white-washed brick, the framing is exposed on the front of the parlour crosswing at first floor level, and rest is clad with peg-tile; brick stacks and tall brick chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof. Plan and Development: L-plan house. The main block is set back a little from the road and faces west. It contains 2 main rooms. At the right (south) end a small room with a projecting end stack. The stack was added in the C18 or C19; this was formerly an unheated service room. Next to it is the hall and, at the left (north) end a parlour crosswing projecting forward a little. Hall and parlour heated by a large axial stack between them and lobby entrance in front of the stack at the left end of the main block. Main stair to rear of hall is C20. Outshots to rear are of uncertain date and were converted to domestic use in the C19. Essentially this is a mid C17 house but the outer walls of the main block, and the lower part of the hall/service room crosswall are earlier. The parlour crosswing is entirely C17. 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and a cellar under the parlour crosswing. Single-storey rear outshots. Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 1:4-window front of late C19/early C20 windows. All are the same style and most are mullioned-and-transomed, and some contain rectangular panes of leaded glass with margin panes. The canted bay window to the hall is late C19/early C20 but there has always been a first floor oriel to the parlour crosswing. It sits on curved brackets with pendants under the corner posts on top of a moulded bressummer at first floor level. Jettied gable above over moulded bressummer on curved brackets each end. The front doorway, at the left end of the main block, contains a C20 door, Tudor style. Roof is half-hipped to right. Interior: The early structural carpentry is well-preserved. In the back wall of the main block it is clear that the wall was raised in the c17. ~here is the old wallplate and cut-off wall posts raised approx .lm with C17 framing. This C17 framing includes evidence of former windows which were blocked when the outshots were added. Also it seems that the lower section of the crosswall between hall and service end room is also earlier than the C17 since the hall crossbeam rests on a wooden block on top of a rail. The joists of the service end room however are set into the rail and are probably part of the earlier house. All the other carpentry is C17. Hall has a chamfered and step-stopped crossbeam and the oak lintel shows of the large fireplace, now blocked. The parlour has a roughly chamfered crossbeam, and the fireplace has an oak lintel with a low Tudor arch; brick jambs are rebuilt. Roof of both wings on C17 tie-beam trusses with butt purlins. Church Place is one of a good and varied group of listed buildings in the vicinity of the Church of St Mary (q.v.). The owners have the deeds back to 1680. Listing NGR: TQ6343849764