STAPLEHURST CRANBROOK ROAD TQ 74 SE (West side) 3/167 The Quarter 25.7.52 Fuller House and Fullers (formerly listed as Fullers House and Fuller's Cottage) II House, possibly also with special function. C16, with early C17 addition and late C19 alterations. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Left side and rear gable ends weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. 2 parallel ranges, built at right-angles to road. C16 range to right of approximately 4 timber-framed bays including narrow stack bay; one long bay towards front, and 2 slightly shorter bays to rear of stack bay. Addition, probably of early C17, parallel to left side of C16 range but extending back only as far as stack bay of that range. Narrower C19 section continuing to rear gable end of C16 range. 2 storeys and attics. Close-studded. Continuous jetty with moulded bressumer across both front gable ends, returning to right on moulded dragon post. Both ranges gabled to front, right range with higher ridge. Gable of left range jettied with plain bressumer, moulded bargeboards, and with C19 moulded pendant descending through collar. Right range gable unjettied, but with moulded bargeboards rising from projecting wall-plate ends, with C19 "collar" between them towards apex, pierced by moulded pendant. Left range half-hipped to rear, right gabled. Multiple red and grey brick stack in right slope of roof, towards rear of left range. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack with cogged cornice towards centre of right range. Irregular fenestration of 5 post-1877 Gothick lights; two 2-light to each gable and one single-light towards centre. Similar lights to attic and to long right side. Canted Gothick bay to ground floor of left gable, and rectangular bay to right. Panelled door with two top lights to left end of right section, boarded door under stack to right side and further doors to rear gable end. Rear lean-to to right section. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing to right section, with gunstock-jowled posts, chamfered arch-braced tie- beams, and evidence for diamond mullion windows. (See drawing of c.1877 in K. Gravet, Timber and Brick Building in Kent, 1971). Listing NGR: TQ7856842203