The Poult House
THE POULT HOUSE, ASHES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363144
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Poult House
- Statutory Address:
- THE POULT HOUSE, ASHES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363144
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Poult House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POULT HOUSE, ASHES LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE POULT HOUSE, ASHES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 61174 49650
Details
HADLOW ASHES LANE, PITTS WOOD TQ 64 NW 6/8 The Poult House
II
House. Mid/late C17 with various C19 and C20 modernisations and some extensions. White-washed English bond brick with some tile-hung timber framing; brick stacks and chimneyshafts, the kitchen staggered chimneyshaft is original; peg-tile roof.
Plan: L-plan house. The main block faces south east and has a 2-room plan. An axial stack between serves the larger left room, the original parlour. Front lobby entrance and winder stair rises to rear of the stack. The smaller right room has a projecting end stack. This is a C19 addition. The room was formerly an unheated service room. One-room plan kitchen block projects at right angles to rear of the parlour. It has a gable-end stack, C20 flat- roofed extensions to rear of kitchen and set back to right of main block and single-storey extension in angle of 2 wings with lateral stack.
Main house is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.
Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front of various C20 casements, the latest with rectangular leaded glass effect and ground floor left a C20 French window. C19 gabled brick porch contains a C19 part-glazed 6-panel door. Tall roof is half-hipped both ends. Left end wall has 3 C20 French windows.
Interior: The structure of the C17 house is essentially intact. The brick fireplaces of the kitchen and parlour are large with plain oak lintels. The former service room axial beam is chamfered with scroll stops. The kitchen crossbeam is plain chamfered and the parlour crossbeam and joists are chamfered with scroll stops, some irregularities in the joisting here suggest that there may have been a small lobby between kitchen and parlour. Similar carpentry on the first floor and roof carried on collared tie-beam trusses with butt purlins. Some early joinery detail such as the 2-panel door between kitchen and parlour. However most joinery detail is C19 and C20.
Listing NGR: TQ6117449650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179444
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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