Gladstones

Gladstones is a 17th-century house located in Boughton Monchelsea. The building features roughly-coursed stone on the front, while the first floor of the rear elevation is timber-framed and clad with weatherboarding. It has a plain tile roof and consists of two bays with a gable end stack bay, which is undivided on the ground floor. There is a stair trimmer towards the rear of the left bay. The house is two storeys high with an attic and has a high chamfered stone plinth and a steeply-pitched gabled roof.

On the right side, there is a later projecting brick gable end stack that replaced an internal gable end stack. A small gabled dormer is positioned to the right of the centre. The windows display irregular fenestration, including two 3-light wooden casements set in 17th-century architraves. The ground-floor windows consist of one 2-light and one 3-light, also in 17th-century architraves. To the left of centre, there is a broad boarded door with a flat hood. A later stone lean-to with a rendered gable is attached to the left gable end.

Inside, the ground-floor features cross-beams of heavy scantling towards the centre and the right end, with unchamfered joists. A central stave-and-daub partition separates the first floor. The right gable end contains an internal stone fireplace with unchamfered painted stone jambs that rise to the soffit of a low cross-beam. The first-floor window architraves are morticed for 6-light diamond-mullion windows with a central king mullion. The roof structure includes clasped purlins with diminishing principal rafters and windbraces.