Malthouse And Malthouse Cottage With Railings And Gates To Front

SO57SW 482-1/9/57 30/03/93

ASHFORD CARBONELL

TINKERS HILL Malthouse and Malthouse Cottage with railings and gates to front

GV II

House and malthouse, now pair of attached houses. Malthouse is C17 or earlier, extended or partly rebuilt in late C17, partly refaced in C18. Malthouse Cottage added in early C19. Red brick in English garden wall bond and Flemish bond, partly exposed timber-frame at rear and stone coursed rubble at rear of Malthouse Cottage. Plain-tile roof with brick coped gable ends. Brick axial ridge stack, projecting and integral brick gable-end stacks. PLAN/EXTERIOR: malthouse to right of south-east front. 2 storeys, 3-window range, with large C18 3-light mullion windows with central opening lights and glazing bars in brick segmental-arched openings. Brick string courses at first and attic floors, doorway to right of centre with small segmental fanlight, cyma-moulded door frame and plank door. Malthouse Cottage on left: single-window range with 3-light mullion casements with small panes and brick segmental arches; boarded door on right also with brick segmental arch. Casement and attic casements in left gable-end with brick segmental arches. Dovecote ledges, 3 string courses, and attic casement in attic gable to right gable-end. Rear: Malthouse on left has casements with glazing bars and C17 ovolo-moulded 5-light mullion window on first floor, all with segmental arches; exposed timber-frame on left above stone rubble single-storey rear wing. Stone rubble rear wall of Malthouse Cottage set back on right with single-storey brick outshut. INTERIOR: cyma-chamfered bridging beams and cyma-moulded door frames to ground floor. Chamfered bridging beams with stepped ogee-chamfer stops to first floor. Double trenched purlin roof with diagonally-set ridge. 2 attic trusses with straight tie beam interrupted by door posts, rails with struts, collar, and twin raking struts. Chamfered doorways with ogee-chamfer stops. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings, gates and gatepiers attached to Malthouse Cottage and running across the front of the front garden of each house. C19. Cast-iron. Plain spike-headed round balusters with plain rails forming railings. Similar gates with plain cross-brace. Tubular gate posts with rounded caps.

Listing NGR: SO5301572189