King Post

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TR 1643-1743 ELHAM ST MARY'S ROAD (north side)

9/69 King Post 29.12.66 GV II*

House, formerly house and shop, C15, with late C16 or early C17 alterations and C18 facade. Timber framed. Front elevation red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Right gable end tile-hung. Long left side partly red and grey brick in a Sussex-type bond, partly tile-hung, and partly exposed framing with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, built at right- angles to street, facing west, with open hall of two timber-framed bays and with storeyed bay to rear (north) end. Storeyed south end bay rebuilt in C17. Probably only in C18, south bay was extended west across alley and was re-faced and re-roofed with higher eaves. Present front south elevation (to street) 2 storeys and cellar with dentilled brick eaves cornice. Roof gabled to east and west. Irregular fenestration of 3 slightly recessed twelve-pane sashes. Similar sashes with segmental heads to ground floor. Panelled door with segmental head to east end of ground floor. Alley passes under first floor to west end, with door to street. West elevation: under- built jetty to storeyed north end bay, with solid-spandrel bracket to south end. North hall bay has knapped flint plinth, long hall window- cill just above ground cill, and first floor jettied in late C16 or early C17 under flying wall-plate (with central first-floor stud,and plaster infilling). South hall bay built out beyond flying wall-plate with brick ground floor and tile-hung first floor. Plain tile roof hipped to north, with similar ridge but lower eaves than re-built south end bay. Multiple brick stack to south end of south hall bay. One four- light ogee and ovolo-moulded mullion window, to first floor of north hall bay and one three-light casement to south hall bay. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded and brattished north end-of-hall beam with feather-lapped plank partition under it, and with vestiges of a spear towards east end. Partition with central tension-braced stud to first floor above. Moulded south end-of-hall beam subsequently moved under central truss. Moulded central-truss posts and moulded, cambered central tie-beam with hollow-chamfered arch braces. Moulded octagonal crown post with broach stops to base and bar-stops to top. Plain crown post with ogee foot braces to north end of hall. Chamfered axial beam with leaf chamfer-stops, and chamfered joists to inserted floor of north hall bay. Very short chamfered axial beam between central truss and stack. Brick fireplace with large-scantling bressumer in south hall bay. Plain-chamfered four-centred-arched brick fireplace to first-floor south end room, where C17 wall-plate, continued from hall wall-plate, remains visible. C17 newel with onion finial to foor of C17-style splat-baluster staircase. Remains of C18 cornice to south ground- floor room. Medieval stone corbel to cellar.

Listing NGR: TR1770243902

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