Halke Cottages

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TR 05 NW SHELDWICH ASHFORD ROAD (east side) North Street

1/70 Nos.1&2 Halke Cottages

II

House, now 2 cottages. C15. Timber framed and part exposed with painted brick infill, part weatherboarded, right return clad with painted brick. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with separately roofed parlour and service wings. Two storeyed wings left and right to central range of one storey and attic, end wings originally jettied, now underbuilt. Hipped roofs, returned on wings with gablets. One gabled dormer. Stack cluster to centre left, and projecting and offset stack at end right. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements. Rib and stud door to left, boarded door to right. Rear: the original entrance front, obscured by outshots, but with jetty and dragon posts revealed. Interior: the wing to right with ogee bracing to hall range and 2 four centred arched doorways to hall range. Crown post roofs. House described as 'early' and 'rare' (See B.0:E. Kent II, 1983, 460).

Listing NGR: TR0141757819

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1004 IOE Records taken by James Hodgson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr James Hodgson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project