Chart Hall Farmhouse

Chart Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-15th century or earlier. It is timber framed, with the ground floor finished in painted brick and the first floor featuring exposed framing. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a Wealden design, consisting of a two-bay open hall where the right bay is subdivided by a full-height post, and a broad storeyed right end bay. The building has two storeys and attics, with broadly spaced studding. Both principal posts of the central truss have long cut jowls facing the right hall bay, and there are tension braces in the right end bay. The right end bay is jettied, with the jetty formerly returning. Solid braces support the flying wall-plate, and there are brackets beneath the central tie-beam and beneath an apparent tie-beam at the centre of each hall bay. The roof is half-hipped to the left and hipped to the right, with a multiple brick stack located on the front slope of the roof towards the left end of the right end bay. A gabled dormer is present, and the fenestration is irregular, featuring five windows in total: two 2-light casements in the left hall bay, one 3-light casement and one 4-light diamond wood mullion window in the right hall bay, and one 5-light casement in the right end bay. There is a tall, narrow durn at the right end of the right hall bay, and an inserted doorway with moulded jambs and a 4-centred arched head beneath the stack. The interior has not been inspected.