Hawkenbury Farmhouse

Hawkenbury Farmhouse is a timber-framed house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the late 16th or early 17th century. The house is built in a Wealden style, with two hall bays of roughly equal length, the left-hand bay being subdivided and with storeyed end bays. It stands on a stone plinth and has plaster infilling between the timber framing. The roof is covered with plain tiles and steeply pitched, with a gablet to the left.

The house features broadly spaced timber studding, tension braces, and arch braces. The right and left end bays are jettied, supported by solid brackets, with the jetties returning on moulded dragon posts. There is an arch-braced flying wall-plate and a solid bracket under the central tie-beam. A projecting stack is located at the left end. A brick stack is in the front slope of the roof to the right section of the left hall bay. The windows are irregularly spaced and consist of one 3-light casement to each end bay, one 9-pane fixed light over the front door, a 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window beneath the stack and a 5-light ovolo-moulded mullioned rectangular oriel window projecting from the right hall bay, supported by three shaped brackets. The oriel window has a broad cill just above ground level. The front door is within a door frame, with a short moulded brattished beam above it, and is located at the left end of the hall. The interior has not been inspected.