Description

STAPLEHURST HUSHEATH HILL TQ 74 SE (East side)

3/147 Hush Heath Manor (formerly 25.7.52 listed as Husheath Manor)

GV II*

House. Early C17. Restored, probably in early C20. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Right return red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, tile-hung above. Plain tile roof. L-plan. Main range with principal room of one or two timber-framed bays to left of stack bay, with further room of one long timber-framed bay incorporating cross- passage, to left end. Bay to right of stack framed as cross-wing, returning to rear with one further stack bay and one timber-framed bay behind it. Apparently integral timber-framed lean-to to long left side of wing. 2 storeys attic and cellar on brick plinth. Close-studded. Continuous jetty, slightly lower across stack and to right end bay, solid-spandrel brackets to left and scrolled and carved brackets to right wing. Roof hipped to left, hip jettied on protruding wall-plate ends with solid-spandrel brackets. Eaves dormer to left of stack, jettied on ovolo-moulded bressumer on shaped brackets, and with moulded bargeboards and pendant. Broad front gable of right wing jettied on billet-moulded bressumer on carved & scrolled brackets, and with billet-moulded bargeboards and moulded pendant. Half-hipped roof to rear of wing, slightly jettied on protruding wall-plate ends, with half-hip jettied still further above. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to junction of main range and wing, and another towards centre of right return elevation. One 3-light mullioned window to left dormer. One 6-light mullioned and transomed window to wing gable. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded windows; one 2-light casement to left end bay; one rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on shaped brackets, with rendered ogee base and 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned frieze windows, under the jettied eaves dormer and one 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to stack bay. 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window on scrolled and carved brackets, with moulded head and cill, and with 2-light ovolo-moulded frieze windows, to right wing. Frieze windows of both oriel windows flanked by blocked or blind "windows" with lower, pegged, cills. Boarded doorway with 4-centred- arched head and hollow spandrels, to right end of left end bay. Boarded door under stack to right side of wing. Interior: exposed framing. Panelled room to left end of ground floor and to front of wing. Linenfold panelling to left and right ends of principal ground-floor room. Brick fireplaces with chamfered bressumers. Side purlin roof with vertical queen-struts to collars.

Listing NGR: TQ7573040835

External Links

• Wikidata Q17544950

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