Saxon Warriors

Saxon Warriors is a house and shop row located on Maidstone Road in Lenham. It includes No. 2 High Street, which is a house now functioning as a shop, originally built in the 15th century and largely reconstructed in the mid-20th century. This building features a timber frame with plaster infilling and a plain tile roof. It has two bays of an open hall typical of Wealden houses, which have been preserved as an open hall. The structure is single storey and sits on a plinth, with widely spaced studs and a large arch-brace on the left side. There are solid brackets at the ends of the tie-beams beneath the outer wall-plate, and no chimney stack. A full-height eight-light diamond mullion hall window is present, along with a half-glazed and panelled door at the left end.

Nos. 1-3 Maidstone Road is a house or house row and shop, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century and restored in the mid-20th century. This building is also timber-framed, featuring brick nogging and applied studs on the ground floor, with plaster infilling and some original studs on the first floor. It has a plain tile roof and is two storeys tall on a stone plinth. There is one timber-framed bay at the corner of High Street and Maidstone Road, along with three additional timber-framed bays along Maidstone Road, with the two furthest from High Street appearing to be framed separately. The entire building has a continuous jetty, which is slightly lower at the corner bay. A plain bracketed dragon post is present, and the first floor is close studded with curved and ogee tension braces. There is a moulded fillet, partly replaced, halfway up the first floor. The roof of the Maidstone Road elevation continues around the High Street elevation as a hip. The fenestration is irregular, featuring one three-light casement on High Street, two three-light casements (one with a frieze window), two two-light casements, and one single-light casement on Maidstone Road. There is a half-glazed and fielded panelled door to the corner bay and a ribbed door to No. 3, both accessed by one step. An early 20th-century photograph shows the corner bay roofed at the same level as No. 2 High Street and higher than the Maidstone Road range. The interiors of Nos. 1-3 were not inspected, but No. 2 High Street has a crown-post roof and exposed studding.