West View House

GISLINGHAM HIGH STREET (EAST SIDE) TM 0771 6/32 West View House (formerly 29.7.55 listed as West View)

GV II

House, latterly 2 dwellings, a shop and a public house. c.1600 with c.1700 rebuilding of earlier bays, altered early C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched black glazed pantiled roof. 3 cell cross passage plan with hall and service bays rebuilt. 2 storeys and attic. Entrance to right into service bay has a 6 raised panelled architraved door with a 4-light fanlight, projecting cornice on shaped brackets, to right a large C19 24-pane architraved shop window, to left and above 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements. Eaves cornice. Three 2-light gabled dormers. Axial ridge stack to left between hall and parlour, service end added external stack with offsets. Parlour end entrance, shaped brackets to plates. Lean-to outshuts to rear, C18 brick to centre projecting further, an entrance to left, an early 3-light leaded casement. Interior: parlour has close studding with mid-rail, stop chamfered axial biding beam and joists. Parlour chamber 4-light diamond mullioned window opening, parlour roof has lower butt and upper clasped purlins with cranked collars, halved principals, reverse cranked windbraces, later bays have thin scantling to exposed frame, through tension bracing, ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, run out chamfered joists. Formerly the Prince of Wales Public House.

Listing NGR: TM0753271569