Old Water Farm House

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM DUCK STREET (North Side)

9/29 Old Water Farm House Nos. 1 and 2 2.11.70 (formerly listed under Duke Street)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house pair. Late C16 or early C17 with C19 addition. Red and grey brick in English bond. Right gable-end tile-hung, probably over brick. Plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road, facing west. 2 storeys on flint plinth. Projecting brick stack with irregular offsets, to left gable end. Tile-hung projecting brick gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of two sixteen-pane sashes in open boxes, each in a wider blocked opening in which the outline of a mullioned and transomed window is visible. Formerly a ten-light stone mullioned and transomed window to left on ground floor. Three-light chamfered brick ovolo-moulded mullion window towards rear of left gable end on first floor. Boarded door to No. 1 in moulded wooden architrave to rear of left gable end, with blocked rectangular moulded brick window between it and stack. C19 two-storey chequered red and grey brick parallel rear range; right gable end (to Duck Street) with two plat bands between ground and first floors, coved eaves cornice and lower ridge than main range roof hipped to rear. Regular two-window front of recessed two- light casements with top lights. Ground-floor sash with narrow margin lights, segmental head and rubbed brick voussoirs. Half-glazed door with damfered rubbed brick basket-arched head, to No. 2. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TR1784943824