Stone House

1. 5281 DYMCHURCH ROAD

Stone House TR 02 NE

SP/540 3/540

II

1. House. Front wing of circa 1830s; truncated and altered wing of medieval origin at rear. Stone rubble walls with galleting. Brick dressings; brick external chimney breasts, wooden paired bracket eaves; slate hipped roof; flanking stacks. Openings with stone block dressings. Two storeys and cellar; two bays. Segmental heads to sash windows four panes wide. Entrance in side elevation; round-headed doorway with fanlight with delicate tracery and good six panel door. Interior: stone lined cellar with arched recesses, brick floor, possibly re-used ovolo moulded and part stopped ceiling beam; brick and wood stairs. Both ground floor rooms with fluted window architrave with acorn wreath, with acorns missing (in 1986) to angle blocks; similar architraves, but with acorns present, to four panel doors. Straight baluster stairs. Front first floor rooms with similar architraves to windows and four panel doors but with differently patterned angle blocks; contemporary fireplace surrounds with C19 grates. N E first floor room with paired doorways, one to plainer rear dressing room, Rear Wing: stone rubble walls with brick repairs; steep plain tile roof with half-hip to SE. Various later window openings. Interior may have been refloored at present levels simultaneously with construction of front wing; inserted brick chimney breast, with C19 first floor fireplace surround and grate. In SE internal wall adjoining front wing, there is a segmental dressed stone window arch with splayed cill and reveals, flanked by shallow segmental stone recess on left hand, and, on right hand, by dressed stone doorway with similar segmental head of stone blocks. Similar splayed recess in centre of attic gable but with head truncated for roof of C19 front wing. Two opposing stone doorways in side walls, close to SE wall. Northern half of rear wing demolished circa 1960.

Listing NGR: TR0674425060