Goldenhurst, The Old House

TR 03 SE ALDINGTON GIGGERS GREEN ROAD (south side) 7/38 Goldenhurst, the Old House (formerly listed 27.11.57 as part of Goldenhurst Farm) GV II House. C16 or earlier. Timber framed and exposed close studding with plaster infill, and part clad with red brick. Plain tiled roof. Two parallel ranges. The southern range of 1 storey and attic with hipped roof and gablets, 3 hipped dormers and stack cluster to rear left, and stacks to rear centre and rear right. Four light mullioned window and hipped porch to right with boarded door. The rear range of 2 storeys with tile hanging, and pendant gable is the original house range, the present entrance front a former barn, converted for Noel Coward, who ran house, barn and adjoining cottage together as a single dwelling 1927-30, now 2 houses (see Goldenhurst Manor). Coward lived here 1926-56, his main residence outside London and Switzerland. (See Present Indicative, 1937, N. Coward). 'Cavalcade' was written here, 1931.

Listing NGR: TR0686234786