Mount Pleasant

TR 14 SE LYMINGE CANTERBURY ROAD (south-west side)

4/143 Mount Pleasant

29.12.66 II

Farmhouse, now house. C17, with partly C18 and partly late C18 or early C19 facade and additions, and later C18 alterations. Formerly timber framed. Front elevation red and grey brick to C17 section, red brick in Flemish bond to left, and later red and grey brick to right. Plain tile roof. Fragment of a C17 timber-framed house, probably re-fronted in C18, and with late C18 or early C19 addition to left and probably to right, and later addition to right of that. 2 storeys. Flint and stone plinth to C17 section. Shallow-pitched roof hipped to left and right. Rear stacks to left and right. Irregular fenestration of 5 sashes; one sixteen-pane to left addition, and another, smaller, towards left end of C17 section, both in open boxes. One recessed twelve-pane sash to right end of C17 section, one sixteen- pane sash in open box, and one similar but recessed sash to right end. Flat-roofed canted brick bay under left end window and another under second window from right. Half-glazed door with side lights and cambered head, under flat-roofed Doric -porch beneath second window from left. Rear brick wing to right, adjoining long single-storey weatherboarded outbuilding. Shorter rear wing in angle between right wing and main range. Interior: only partly inspected. Three C17 beams and chamfered joists spanning present entrance hall, one beam chamfered, with a jewelled or pyramidal stop.

Listing NGR: TR1613041414