The Old Hatchet Inn

WINKFIELD

SU97SW HATCHET LANE, Cranbourne 674-1/13/244 (West side) 20/12/72 The Old Hatchet Inn

GV II

Inn, now public house. C16 extended C18, altered C19 and C20. MATERIALS: part timber frame encased in painted brick, part painted brick. PLAN: old tile roof part gabled, part half-hipped; pyramidal over C18 extension. Earliest part 4 framed bays with extension on each end and at rear. EXTERIOR: part single storey, part one-and-a-half storeys, part 2 storeys. One chimney at right, one large ridge chimney rebuilt C19, one very large weathered chimney at rear. All with corniced heads and clay pots. C19 casement windows, some C19 sash windows. Entrance front, south-east, irregular. Centre section has 4 casement windows on ground floor, plain plank door on left. 4 gabled dormers with 2-light casement windows. Lower single bay section on left. 2 storey, C18 section on right with C20 enclosed gabled entrance porch and coupled sash window on right. Two, C19 sash windows in moulded wooden frames. INTERIOR: large moulded beams on ground floor. Queen post roof with clasped purlins.