James House Including Garden Walls Adjoining to Rear

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HADLOW MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 65 SW 3/91 James House including garden walls adjoining to rear 20.10.54

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House. Late C17, with some C19 and C20 modernisation. White-washed Flemish bond brick on sandstone footings; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Double depth plan house facing west north west, say west. 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep. Larger main rooms to front have end stacks (kitchen to right and parlour to left) with unheated service rooms to rear. Central front entrance now directly into former kitchen (present entrance hall). Originally there was probably a passage through the house to the staircase which projects to rear. Second passage behind parlour from left (north) doorway to the foot of the stairs. Partition between former kitchen/entrance hall and rear service room has been removed. Each end of the front are single storey one- room plan extensions. The right (southern) one is larger with an end stack and is now used as a kitchen.

Main house is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and additions are single storey.

Exterior: Main house has a symmetrical 3-window front of C19 12-pane sashes under flat brick arches. Central doorway up one stone step contains original bead-moulded doorframe under a flat-roofed hood on shaped timber brackets. C19 8-panel door. Flat brick band at first floor level. Plain deep eaves and tall roof is hipped both ends. It contains 2 flat-roofed dormers with 9-pane sash windows. Extensions each side of the front contain, to left, a single C19 16-pane sash and, to right, 2 C20 mullion-and-transom windows. Both have hipped roofs. Left end extension is a porch and contains a doorway with side lights and hood similar in style to the front doorway. Rear elevation is less regular but looks more original containing flat-faced mullion-and-transom windows with rectangular panes of leaded glass. Most are replacements from the early C20 but a couple are probably original; the dormers certainly are. Stair block contains an early C20 door from the garden terrace onto the first half landing. Its roof is hipped.

Interior: Has been modernised in the C19 and C20 but most of the structure is thought to be original. Some is exposed. Former kitchen crossbeam is chamfered with runout stops and some of the framing'of the ground floor partitions is exposed. Roof of collared tie-beam trusses with staggered butt purlins. Some original joinery survives includingabox cornice in the parlour and a good dogleg stair; moulded boards over the closed string, square newel posts with moulded pendants, moulded flat handrail and turned balusters. The fireplaces have been blocked or altered and most of the joinery is C19 or c20.

The garden wall to rear of the left (north) end includes several builds. The section nearest the house is probably late C17, flying bond red brick with decorative burnt headers. The rest is probably earlier than the house. It is built of ragstone blocks laid to rough courses and the (southern) garden side is faced with Flemish bond small red bricks. Top courses similar to the other section.

Listing NGR: TQ6360050252

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