Cleatham Hall

Cleatham Hall is a house built in 1855, possibly by J M Hooker of Tunbridge Wells, with origins dating back to the 18th century or earlier, and 20th-century additions. The earlier parts of the building are made of coursed limestone rubble, while the 19th-century sections are constructed from brick and rendered throughout. A 20th-century extension is made of yellow brick. The roof is covered with slate and lead, and there are brick stacks.

The house is designed in the Classical Revival style and has two storeys with five bays arranged in a 2:1:2 pattern. It features a plinth and rusticated full-height pilasters that define the central entrance bay and the angles of the building. A flight of five stone steps leads to a panelled door set in a reveal beneath a recessed rectangular panel, with carved consoles supporting a projecting hood that has a moulded cornice returned as a string-course. The entrance is flanked by jamb lights.

The side bays contain sash windows in raised surrounds, which have moulded cornices and flat hoods supported by carved consoles. The door and ground floor windows are fitted with wooden blind boxes. A moulded string-course on brackets runs along the first floor, which features a central tripartite arched sash window and pairs of sashes in raised surrounds, each with recessed rectangular panels beneath and segmental pediments topped with moulded cornices on carved consoles. Above the pilasters, there is a frieze with panels, triglyphs, and modillions that support a heavy moulded cornice and parapet.

The right return of the building, which forms the garden front, has similar full-height pilasters, a first floor string, an entablature, and a cornice. There is a full-height canted bay to the right with angle pilasters flanking the sashes, and to the left, there are single ground and first floor tripartite sashes with shouldered architraves.

The interior of the 19th-century section is virtually complete and includes a fine geometrical staircase with stone steps, slender cast-iron balusters, wall niches, a moulded cornice, and a domed stair light. Ground floor rooms feature plaster cornices and ceiling roses, along with panelled doors, window shutters, and dado, all grained in 1889.