Listed Building record TR 14 NE 98 - RIVER COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TR 1863 4663 (point)
Map sheet TR14NE
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish ELHAM, SHEPWAY, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 NE ELHAM WINGMORE
2/94 River Cottage 29.12.66
GV II
House. Late C16 or early C17 restored in late C20. Timber framed with rendered infilling. Left gable end painted brick on ground floor, tile-hung above. Plain tile roof. 5 timber-framed bays, that to left end short. 2 storeys, on flint plinth. Continuous jetty on solid- spandrel brackets, formerly returning along left gable end on dragon post. Broadly-spaced framing. Tension brace to left end of ground floor and both ends of first floor, and pair between central and left- central bay on each floor. Hipped roof. Brick ridge stack to right of centre, to right end of right-central bay. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded casements; one three-light towards left end, one two- light towards centre, and one two-light to right. Ribbed door in painted brick porch with hipped plain tile roof under stack. Interior: exposed framing. Dragon beam and axial joists to short left end bay. Chamfered axial beam to left-central bay and another to central bay. Cross-beam morticed for partition between them, with arch-braced first-floor partition above. Cross-beam and arch-braced tie-beam several feet left of stack. Shaped jowls to principal posts. Complete four-light diamond mullion rear window to first floor. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer to left side of stack.
Listing NGR: TR1863646634


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM