Weavering Manor

TQ 75 NE BOXLEY WEAVERING STREET (east side)

5/112 Nos. 1 and 2 Weavering 13.7. 1978 Manor (formerly listed as Weavering Manor)

G.V. II*

House, now 2 houses. Early C15 with early C17 addition. Rendered timber-framing with slate roof. 2 storeys on plinth. No. 2 (to left) comprises ¾ of an early C15 Wealden house with a single, storeyed, service bay at left end and open hall of 2 unequal bays. No. 1 is early C17 rebuild of right storeyed end bay of Wealden, with addition of wing to front, forming L plan. No. 1 built with higher storeys than No. 2. No. 2 formerly jettied on left end and to front at left end. Has hipped roof at left end and multiple brick stack in front slope of roof at right end. 2 3-light leaded casements on each floor, one towards left end and one towards right end. Door in left gable end. No.1: roof gabled at junction with No. 2 and hipped to right. Roof of wing hipped. 2 large projecting stacks with stone bases, one at right gable end of main block and one on right side elevation of wing. One 3-light leaded casement on each floor to left in main block, one on re-entrant elevation of wing and one in gable end of wing. Panelled door under flat hood in main block, against wing. Interior: No. 2 has rare survival of short moulded spear in high-end bressumer on ground floor, moulded end of hall beams, roof with moulded crown-post, ashlar pieces, moulded cornice, heavy cambered tie-beam, moulded central truss posts and exposed framing. Fireplace with chamfered surround and integral moulded candle brackets on first floor in left end bay. No. 1 has early C17 moulded stone fireplace surrounds, early C17 panelling in ground-floor roan of wing and first-floor room of main block. Butt side purlin roof. Owned by Vintners Company 1557 - 1918.

Listing NGR: TQ7838755792