Listed Building record TQ 63 NW 27 - ELMHURST

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 63 NW BRENCHLEY DUNDLE LANE
9/69 Elmhurst
II
Former farmhouse. Circa mid C17 with late C17/early C18 alterations and C20 renovations. Framed construction, underbuilt in Flemish bond brick, the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces approximately north. The original arrangement appears to have been a 2 room plan main block with a lobby entrance, the 2 principal rooms heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack. An integral rear outshut provided a rear service room and stair cell with a good dog-leg stair. A one\room plan rear left wing is probably slightly, though not much later and may have functioned as a purpose-built kitchen, heated from an end stack. A small unheated room at the left (east) end of the main block is a late C17/early C18 addition. The compact plan and quality of the fireplaces and internal carpentry suggest a gentry status.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, symmetrical at the right. The left end addition is marked by a change in the level of the tile-hanging. C20 half-glazed door to right of centre with a glazed overlight and a flat porch hood on brackets. The bays flanking the front door are glazed with C20 3-light casements, 2-panes per light. The left hand bay has one ground floor and one first floor 3-light casement, no glazing bars to the lights. Roof half-hipped at ends. Axial stack with a staggered triple shaft with tile-hung batters, the top of the shaft renewed with a corbelled brick cornice. The rear elevation has C19 and c20windows including a French window. The rear wing has stone footings, the end stack with a shaft with a corbelled brick cornice.
Interior: High quality C17 features. The left hand of the 2 heated rooms has a scroll-stopped lintel. The stair cell has 3 good C17 doors in moulded frames with bar stops, stair with turned balusters. The rear wing has a scroll-stopped ceiling beam and exposed chamfered stopped joists, fireplace with brick jambs and an oak lintel. The 2 first floor fireplaces have stone jambs, one with a stone lintel.
Roof: Staggered butt purlin roof of 2 phases. The roof over the left end addition has a date of 1717, upside down, on one of the timbers.
A high quality C17 house with an interesting plan form and good interior features.
Listing NGR: TQ6423539527

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