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TQ 76 SW 4/222

SNODLAND CP HIGH STREET (north side) No. 73, Mulberry Cottage

Formerly listed as Mulberry Cottages, HIGH STREET)

1.8.52

II* Hall-house. Circa 1450, restored 1932. Timber-framing with plaster-infilling; some close-studding in first floor central recess and curved braces over jettied overhangs. Classical Wealden hall-house with first floor jetties and recess in centre over which the roof-eaves are supported on curved side braces and single brace rising from off-centre wall-post. Plain tiled roof, hipped with gablets. Hipped dormer off-centre to right and brick stacks, off-centre to left and at right end. Two storeys; irregular fenestration of seven windows on first floor, (five windows continuously under eaves in recess) and seven windows on ground-floor, (four windows continuously under jetty to right). Front frame lattice casements. Entrances at rear, both C16 boarded and ribbed doors in moulded wooden Tudor arch surrounds. Interior: evidence of substantial timber-frame. Low arched moulded bressummer over drawing-fireplace. Framed and plaster-infilling smoke bay. Crown-post, collar-purlin roof with moulded octagonal crown-post.

Listing NGR: TQ7051961811 .(2)


Description from record TQ 76 SW 46 :
[TQ 7045 6180 Snodland High Street centred, approximate location for Mulberry Cottages] Mulberry Cottages, High Street (N side), Grade 2*. Hall-house, now cottage pair. Circa 1450, restored 1932. Timber-framing with plaster-infilling, some close-studding in 1st floor central recess and curved braces over jettied overhang. Classical Wealden hall-house with 1st floor jetties and recess in centre over which the roof-eaves are supported on curved side braces and single brace risingfrom off-centre wall-post. Plain tiled roof, hipped with gablets. Hipped dormer, off-centre to right and brick stacks. Off-centre to left and at right end. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 7 windows on 1st floor (5 windows continuously under eaves in recess) and 7 windows on ground-floor, (4 windows continuously under jetty to right). Front frame lattice casements. Entrances at rear, both C16 boarded and ribbed doors in moulded wooden Tudor arch surrounds. Interior: evidence of substantial timber-frame. Low arched moulded bresummer over drawing-fireplace. Framed and plaster-infilling smoke bay. Crown-post, collar-purlin roof with moulded octagonal crown-post.(1)

<1> DOE(HHR) Dist of Tonbridge and Malling Kent 1987 83 (OS Card Reference). SKE41093.

<2> Historic England, National Heritage List for England (Index). SKE29372.