Ploggs Hall

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TQ 64 NE CAPEL MAIDSTONE ROAD, WHETSTEAD

2/266 Ploggs Hall

GV II

House, former farmhouse. C17 origins, massively rebuilt in the late C18/early C19, modernised in the early C20. Ground floor level is coursed sandstone ashlar, chanelled rusticated and with a plinth and plat band at first floor level. Above is timber-framed and clad at the back with peg-tile, elsewhere replaced with scallop-tiles. Brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Rectangular double depth plan house facing a little north of east. Central front doorway to large entrance hall containing main stair. Principal room either side at the front, both heated by rear stacks backing onto rear kitchen and service rooms. Rear left room was probably the late C18/early C19 kitchen since there is said to be a large blocked fireplace backing onto the front parlour. If so rear axial stack serving the same room is later. That apart the present layout is a late C18/early C19 house. However the left (south) front room section includes the remains of one cell of a C17 house; the large fireplace shows it was then the kitchen.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: Symmetrical 5-window front of probably early C20 paired 8-pane sashes with horns. Central front doorway contains a contemporary top-glazed door with diagonal planks in the lower panels behind gabled porch on timber posts. Like the front most of the windows were replaced in the early C20 but mostly the same size. The left end has a 3-window garden front including French windows put in circa 1988. Rear has less regular fenestration, service doorway to rear and right (north) end has another small one with a tall side light which is probably late C18/early C19 and protected by twisted iron bars. Plain eaves and roof is hipped on all sides with central axial valley.

Interior: Is largely the result of successive C19 and C20 modernisations although the late C18/early C19 layout remains. C17 features in the front parlour, the C17 kitchen. Large brick fireplace with plain oak lintel and blocked openings to oven and ash-pit. The parlour and bedroom above have chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beams. The C17 roof was incorporated and adapted into the late C18/early C19 roof. Collared tie purlin truss built for clasped side purlins. The later roof is a good solid piece of carpentry; collared tie-beam trusses with raking struts and staggered butt purlins and particularly impressive reinforced diagonal trusses on the hipped corners.

Ploggs Hall is part of a group with its former farmbuildings (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6568945935

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