Styles

YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 6949 (South-west side) (Formerly known as High Street, East- West Arm) 7/59 Styles GV II

House, possibly formerly cottages, now house. Late C18. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. 2 timber-framed bays. 2 storeys, on rendered plinth. Hipped roof. Broad projecting stack with rendered base and brick flue, to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 2 three-light casements. Two similar windows to ground floor. Boarded door up four steps to right of centre. Rear lean-to with rendered base and weatherboarded gable. Interior: chamfered-principal posts with long cut jowls. Chamfered tie-beams and wall-plates. Clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters. Curved tension braces to rear first- floor wall. Chamfered ground-floor beam, and stair trimmer to rear left corner. Broad red and grey brick ground-floor fireplace with bevelled bressumer and blocked bread oven. C19 first-floor grate. Hair plaster infilling with pricked pattern to rear first-floor wall. Formerly known as Forge Cottage.

Listing NGR: TQ6977149804