Dymchurch Rectory

TR 104 297 DYMCHURCH HIGH STREET (east side)

4/56 No. 102 Dymchurch Rectory 9.6.59 GV II

House, now Rectory. Late C16 or early C17 with early C18 facade. Timber framed. Clad in red brick in Flemish bond with occasional grey headers. 3 courses of grey headers in a flush band between floors. Plain tile roof. 4 timber framed bays, forming 2 rooms, and 2 narrow end stack bays. Central entrance hallcreated in C18. 2 storeys and attic on plinth. Coped brick gables with red brick kneelers. Gable end ridge stacks. Small central skylight. Regular 5-window front of 12-pane glazing bar sashes in open boxes with segmental heads to glazing bars, and brick voussoirs. Ground floor windows similar. Half-glazed inner door within C20 brick porch with half-glazed double doors. Rear lean-to. Interior: broadly spaced square framing (2 panels per storey) to rear wall with large posts and heavy curved tension braces. Chamfer-stopped beams and joists. Large inglenook to left. Splat balusters to stairs, some C19, some possibly earlier. Broad C18 panelled doors. Ground floor room to right completely furnished with fielded panels and lightly-moulded cornice. Clasped purlin roof. Became a Rectory in 1947.

Listing NGR: TR1034429640