This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
TR 13 NW SALTWOOD SANDLING ROAD (South-west side)
3/73 Sandling 29.12.66 Slaybrook Hall (formerly listed as Slaybrook)
II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C15 or early C16 with later C16 alterations and addition to right. Alterations and additions to rear 1910-1911 and 1925- 1926 latter by Bailey and Dudley. Timber framed with rendered infilling and plain tile roof, including C20 additions. Wealden of 2 roughly equal- length hall bays and storeyed left end bay. Right end bay replaced or substantially altered in C16 to form 2 timber-framed bays. 2 storeys.
Hall, left end bay and first floor of right gable end close-studded.
Broadly-spaced studding to front of 2 right end bays. Broad low former window cill to right hall bay. Left end bay jettied, jetty returning on plain dragon post. Short arch-brace to left end of flying wall-plate; C20 brace and bracket to right end. Roof hipped with gablet to left, hipped to right, with slight break between roofs of 2 sections. C20 rear stacks to left and towards centre. Filleted brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of hall; stack exposed to front elevation and corbelled out to first floor. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements on moulded wooden cills; one 4- (formerly 5-) light ovolo-moulded mullion window to left end bay; one 4-light to hall and two 3-light to right section, all with renewed moulded wooden mullions. Blocked 5-light diamond mullion window to right gable end. 6-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with moulded cill and cornice to ground floor of left end bays similar, partly renewed, window to hall and two renewed 3-light windows to right section. Moulded 4-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels and ribbed door to right end of left end bay. C20 rear additions. Interior: exposed framing. Two 4-centred arched hollow-chamfered service doorways and similar rear doorway to cross- passage. Moulded spear with integral post and panel to right end-of-hall beam. Gerald Du Maurier and Noel Coward reputed to have stayed and worked here. (Country Life LIX, 1926).
Listing NGR: TR1481136179
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1095 IOE Records taken by Richard Jago; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Richard Jago. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Jago, Richard
Rights Holder: Jago, Richard
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