Little Harts Heath

STAPLEHURST HUSHEATH HILL TQ 74 SE (West side)

3/148 Little Harts Heath and No. 23.5.67 2 Little Harts Heath

GV II*

House, now 2 houses. C15 or early C16. Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with one long storeyed left end bay and 2 roughly equal-length open-hall bays. Storeyed right end bay, and possibly a third hall bay, no longer extant. 2 storeys and attic. Close-studded. Left end bay jettied, left end underbuilt in painted brick. Short arch brace to left end of flying wall-plate, later brace to right end. 2 principal posts to centre and present right end of open hall have full-height slender attached shafts with moulded polygonal capitals. Close-studded coving beneath flying wall-plate. Steeply- pitched roof hipped to left and presently gabled to right. Multiple filleted red and grey brick stack in front slope of roof to right end of long left bay. Small gabled 2-light dormer. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded casements; one 3-light to left end bay, one 3-light to left hall bay and one 2-light to right hall bay. Boarded door to left side and to right end. Timber-framed lean-to to right with tall slender stack. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7550041190