Fuller House Fullers

Fuller House and Fullers is a house, and possibly once had a special function, dating from the 16th century, with an early 17th-century addition and late 19th-century alterations. The house is timber framed with rendered infilling, with the left side and rear gable ends weatherboarded. It has a plain tile roof and consists of two ranges built at right angles to the road.

The right-hand range, of approximately four timber-framed bays, includes a narrow stack bay; it has one long bay towards the front and two slightly shorter bays to the rear of the stack bay. An addition, probably from the early 17th century, runs parallel to the left side of the 16th-century range but extends back only as far as the stack bay of that range. A narrower 19th-century section continues to the rear gable end of the 16th-century range. The house has two storeys and an attic.

The left range has close-studded construction. A continuous jetty with a moulded bressumer runs across both front gable ends, returning to the right on a moulded dragon post. Both ranges are gabled to the front, with the right range having a higher ridge. The gable of the left range is jettied with a plain bressumer, moulded bargeboards, and a 19th-century moulded pendant descending through the collar. The right range gable is unjettied, but has moulded bargeboards rising from projecting wall-plate ends, with a 19th-century "collar" between them towards the apex, pierced by a moulded pendant. The left range has a half-hipped rear, and the right range is gabled. Multiple red and grey brick stack is in the right slope of the roof, towards the rear of the left range; a multiple red and grey brick ridge stack with a cogged cornice is towards the centre of the right range.

The fenestration is irregular, featuring five post-1877 Gothick lights: two 2-light windows to each gable, and one single-light window towards the centre. Similar lights are present in the attic and along the long right side. A canted Gothick bay extends from the ground floor of the left gable, and a rectangular bay is located to the right. A panelled door with two top lights is located at the left end of the right section, a boarded door is under the stack to the right, and further doors are found at the rear gable end. A rear lean-to is situated on the right section.

The interior, partially inspected, reveals exposed framing in the right section, including gunstock-jowled posts, chamfered arch-braced tie-beams, and evidence for diamond mullion windows. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are also visible. A drawing dated circa 1877 is documented in K. Gravet’s Timber and Brick Building in Kent (1971).