Slaybrook Hall

TR 13 NW SALTWOOD SANDLING ROAD (South-west side)

3/73 Sandling 29.12.66 Slaybrook Hall (formerly listed as Slaybrook)

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Farmhouse, now house. Late C15 or early C16 with later C16 alterations and addition to right. Alterations and additions to rear 1910-1911 and 1925- 1926 latter by Bailey and Dudley. Timber framed with rendered infilling and plain tile roof, including C20 additions. Wealden of 2 roughly equal- length hall bays and storeyed left end bay. Right end bay replaced or substantially altered in C16 to form 2 timber-framed bays. 2 storeys. Hall, left end bay and first floor of right gable end close-studded. Broadly-spaced studding to front of 2 right end bays. Broad low former window cill to right hall bay. Left end bay jettied, jetty returning on plain dragon post. Short arch-brace to left end of flying wall-plate; C20 brace and bracket to right end. Roof hipped with gablet to left, hipped to right, with slight break between roofs of 2 sections. C20 rear stacks to left and towards centre. Filleted brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of hall; stack exposed to front elevation and corbelled out to first floor. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements on moulded wooden cills; one 4- (formerly 5-) light ovolo-moulded mullion window to left end bay; one 4-light to hall and two 3-light to right section, all with renewed moulded wooden mullions. Blocked 5-light diamond mullion window to right gable end. 6-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with moulded cill and cornice to ground floor of left end bays similar, partly renewed, window to hall and two renewed 3-light windows to right section. Moulded 4-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels and ribbed door to right end of left end bay. C20 rear additions. Interior: exposed framing. Two 4-centred arched hollow-chamfered service doorways and similar rear doorway to cross- passage. Moulded spear with integral post and panel to right end-of-hall beam. Gerald Du Maurier and Noel Coward reputed to have stayed and worked here. (Country Life LIX, 1926).

Listing NGR: TR1481136179