Tilts House

Tilts House is an early 18th-century farmhouse, later altered in the early to mid-19th century and now used as a house. It is located on the north side of Heath Road, Boughton Monchelsea. The house is built of red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a plain tile roof. It is a double-depth building, although the ranges may have been constructed slightly at different times. The two storeys are set upon a stone plinth, which is plain to the front and galleted to the rear. A moulded wooden eaves cornice runs along the top of the walls. The gable ends are brick-coped and kneelered. There are gable end stacks to the front range, and a gable end stack to the left of the rear range. The windows are a mix of two multipane sashes with shallow sloping hoods, and a central 20-pane sash, all set within altered openings. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. A central panelled door is topped with a 4-light rectangular fanlight and a flat hood. The interior, only partly inspected, features high ceilings to the front range with chamfered axial beams and run-out stops, and panelled doors. There is a stone-flagged entrance hall with an 18th-century dog-leg staircase rising towards the rear of the front range, branching twice to first-floor rooms of the rear range. An iron range, dated 1720, is located in the rear stack. The building is related to items 1/31 and 1/32.