Tuffs Farm and 2 Tuffs Farm Cottage

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TL 00 SW 6/96

CHIPPERFIELD TOWER HILL (west side) Tuffs Farm and Tuffs Farm Cottage, No.2

(Formerly listed as Tufts Farm and No.2 (Tufts Farm Cottage))

GV II Farmhouse, now two private houses. Late C16, north east extension C18, brick cased in C19. West end extension 1938. Timber frame cased in red brick (white painted on east side of crosswing facing the road). Yellow brick west end. Steep old red tile roofs. Hipped parallel roofs to northeast extension. A two storeys L-shaped house facing south with two storeys east crosswing and two storeys west extension with a gable on its south face. Lobby entry next very large internal chimney at junction with crosswing. Six windows long south front. Casement windows and two doors. Dark weatherboarded single-storey outhouses with steep red tiled roof extends to west from west gable. East front has three-light flush casement window to each floor and door to right hand. Two storeys north east extension has one two-light casement window with timber lintel to first floor and two on ground floor. Large gable chimney and weatherboarded lean-to. Jowled posts with clasped-purlin roof on tie-beam and collar trusses and wind bracing. North gable of crosswing has exposed frame of clasped-purlin roof brick-nogged with diminished principals and central strut. Hall has chamfered axial beam and two-panel door from lobby entrance.

Listing NGR: TL0362002369