Description

BENENDEN TQ83SW WALKHURST ROAD 1350-0/3/147 (South East side) Brick Kiln II House. Late C16 timber-framed building altered in C17 and refronted and extended in C19. Ground floor red brick with grey headers in diaper pattern, 1st floor tile hung with some bands of diamond point tiles. Steeply pitched tiled roof, hipped at left end, half-hipped at right end with cruciform brick stack. 2 storeys, 4 windows. Modern casement windows with cambered heads to ground floor. To right is a 2 storey 1 bay C19 addition in diaper brickwork with tiled roof. 1 modern casement and modern gabled weatherporch. End chimneystack has Invicta fire insurance plaque. Interior of main part has wide inglenook fireplace with 2 salt cupboards, ceiling with roll moulded spine and axial beams and chamfered joists with lamb's tongue stops and jowled posts. There are traces of pargetting, a combed pattern, probably C18. Attic winder stair probably late C17 or early C18 inserted when the roof was altered.

Listing NGR: TQ8133133110

External Links

• Wikidata Q26499969

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