Iden Farm

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA HEATH ROAD TQ 75 SE (North side) Cock Street

1/34 Iden Farm

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. C16, with later C16 and C18 alterations. Restored 1985-6. Timber framed. Ground floor evenly-coursed galleted stone. Exposed framing with rendered infilling to first floor. First floor of right gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays, 3 to left (north) relatively narrow. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. C18 close-studding of thin scantling with straight tension braces. Underbuilt gable-end jetty to right. Roof hipped to left with gablet, half-hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to second timber-framed bay from left. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one 2-light to each of 2 left bays and right end bay, one 4- light to second bay from right. Pegged cills to the 2 outer windows. Boarded door to left of right end bay, in stone, timber and brick porch with hipped plain-tile roof. Galleted stone rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Gunstock-jowled posts, some of relatively heavy scantling. Arch-braced tie-beam and apparently integral first-floor partition to truss adjoining north side of stack, and another to truss between south-central and south end bays. Mortices for unbraced partition to truss immediately to south of stack. No subdivision between stack and south gable end on ground floor. Stairs between stack and front wall. East half of north end bay entirely occupied by rear of stack. Fireplace to east half of north-central bay with chamfered bressumer and chamfered stone jambs with masons mark and inset initialled MN. Mortices for diamond mullion window to each floor of north gable end. Roof possibly rebuilt in later C16 or C17, trusses not matched to tie-beams, clasped purlins with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters.

Listing NGR: TQ7817350871