Listed Building: COTTONS FARMHOUSE (1060740)

STAPLEHURST CHICKENDEN LANE TQ 84 SW (North side) 4/74 23.5.67 Cottons Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse, now house. C15, with later alterations. C16 or early C17 rear wing. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 roughly equal-length timber-framed bays, that to left subdivided with cross-passage to left. Storeyed end bays. 2 storeys. Rendered plinth. Gable end jetties. Close-studded, with higher midrail to right hall bay, and pegs for broad window-cill to same bay. Hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick stack to left end of left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 3-light casement to left end bay, one 2-light casement to each hall bay, and one 4- light diamond mullion window to right end. Pegged cill for mullioned window to left end. Ribbed door in moulded 4-centred-arched architrave, with head higher than midrail, to left end of hall. Short C16 two-bay timber-framed rear wing to left, gabled and tile-hung on first floor. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded right end-of-hall beam, morticed for spear towards rear end and grooved for boarded partition. Right end room morticed for axial subdivision. Doubly-chamfered central truss posts, with hollow-chamfered arch braces to tie-beam. Moulded octagonal crown-post. Ogee braces to left end-of-hall partition. Moulded 4-centred-arched stone fireplace. Listing NGR: TQ8011843894