Oast House Cottage And Weavers

BARN HILL TQ 75 SW HUNTON (East Side) 2/59 Oast House Cottage and Weavers II House, formerly oasthouse, now house. Early C17. Wing dated 1623. Converted to oasthouse in C19. Restored in 1980s. Timber framed. Chequered red and grey brick to ground floor of main range, first floor rendered. Red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor of cross-wing, exposed framing with plaster infilling to first floor. Rear section stone on ground floor, weatherboarded above. Plain tile roofs. Main range of approximately 3 timber-framed bays. Cross-wing to right of 3 timber- framed bays, projecting to rear. Stair turret in angle between main range and wing. Timber-framed section of one bay at right-angles to rear of wing,parallel to and adjoining stair turret and possibly with C16 or earlier core. Main range 2 storeys, wing 2 storeys and attic. Gable of attic jettied on carved brackets to front and rear, with carved pendants to tie-beam ends. Rear tie-beam carved. Front beam, bargeboards and pendant formerly carved, now plain. Carved bargeboards and tie-beam to stair turret. Multiple brick ridge stack to right end of main range. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; two 2-light casements and one 3-light to main range, and one 12-light canted mullioned-and transomed C20 oriel window with coved base to wing, re-using C17 mortices. Boarded door with flat bracketed hood beneath stack, and boarded door with cambered head to centre of gable end of wing. Wing formerly dated 1623 on carved gable-end jetty bressumer. Interior: exposed framing. Former bargeboard embedded in wall of wing. (K. Gravett, Timber and Brick Building in Kent, 1971.)

Listing NGR: TQ7238350782