Kayden House

TM 06 NW BADWELL ASH LONG THURLOW ROAD

5/5 Kayden House

II

House. C16 and C17. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles; an internal chimney-stack with 3 attached square shafts, set diamond-wise on a rectangular base of Tudor brick. 2 storeys, attic to part. 3 3-light windows to each storey, all replacements of the 1980's in traditional style. A C20 door on the extreme left in a plain older surround. Various extensions at the rear. 3-cell plan, but not all of one build. The chimney-stack and the part to the left of it is an early C17 extension/replacement to an older core: ovolo-mouldings on main beams to ground and first floor; long jowls to main posts. To right of stack, a single bay with C16 double roll-mouldings to the main beams and single roll-moulding to the joists; the main cross-beam stands forward from the chimney-stack, and is unrelated to it. Beside the main posts supporting this beam are the remains of another pair of posts with empty mortices for long braces. The bay at the right end has been much altered on the ground floor; on the upper floor, wide chamfer to the main beam of the original upper ceiling, widely-spaced studs, small C17 fireplace with brick arch on rear wall, face-halved scarf in wallplate. An addition at the rear has a straight flight of stairs with some shaped Jacobean balusters. Roof to left of stack inaccessible; to right, all with 2 rows of unstepped butt purlins, although the central section is likely to replace an earlier roof.

Listing NGR: TM0051268180