Listed Building record TR 14 NW 57 - LITTLE GAINS HOUSE
Summary
Location
| Grid reference | TR 1251 4599 (point) | 
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TR14NW | 
| District | FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT | 
| Civil Parish | ELMSTED, SHEPWAY, KENT | 
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Full Description
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 14 NW  ELMSTEAD                   -
1/112                                              Little Gains House 29.12.66                                                    II
House.  Later C16, with C18 and C19 alterations.  Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in a mixed bond, first-floor timber- framed with rendered infilling.  Left gable end red and grey brick in Flemish bond.  Plain tile roof.  Lobby-entry plan of 3 timber-framed bays and stack bay.  2 storeys.  Flint plinth with brick top course. Broadly-spaced studding and two tension braces to first floor.  Hipped roof, with gablet to left.  Multiflue brick ridge stack towards left end.  Irregular fenestration of 4 small casements; one two-light to left end bay, one single-light and one two-light to right-central bay and one two-light to right end bay.  Boarded double doors under stack.  Leaded two-light casement with old glass to left end of ground floor.  Painted brick rear lean-to, raised to two storeys at left end.  Interior: axial joists to short left end bay.  Chamfered axial beam and joists to right-central bay.  Bevelled axial joists to right end room.  Gunstock-jowled posts.  Tension-braced stud partition to first floor between right-central and right end bays.  Six-light diamond- mullion rear ground-floor window to right end bay, and similar five- light window to first floor above.  Brick fireplace with chamfered cambered bressumer with hollow spandrels.  Bread oven.  Plank door.
Listing NGR: TR1251945991
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM