Quarry House

Quarry House is a house that was formerly cottages, located in Boughton Monchelsea. It dates from the late 16th century, with an addition from the late 16th or early 17th century on the right side, and has undergone alterations in the 20th century. The building is timber framed with plaster infilling, and the ground floor of the right end bay and the left gable end have been rebuilt in stone.

The house features a mid- to late 16th century lobby-entry plan, comprising two timber-framed bays to the left of the stack bay and one bay to the right. The left end bay has been altered or renewed in the 17th century. Two additional timber-framed bays of unequal length were added to the right in the late 16th or early 17th century. The structure is two storeys high with an attic and cellars, set on a stone plinth. It has broadly spaced studding, with two tension braces on the left end and one of thin scantling on the right end. The roof is half-hipped, and the wall-plates at the right end project, carrying verges up to the jettied half hip. A brick ridge stack is located towards the centre, and there is a truncated stack with a slender projecting stone base on the right gable end.

The house has two gabled dormers and irregular fenestration with four windows: one 2-light and three 3-light, some of which have pegged cills. There is a blocked 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with diamond subsidiary mullions to the bay right of the stack, a blocked door under the stack, a half-glazed door towards the left end, and a ribbed door under a canopy to the right of centre. The rear features a short rendered return wing to the left and a similar but lower rear wing to the right of the stack, along with a rear lean-to.

Inside, the house has exposed framing and mortices for diamond mullion windows in both sections. The central stack includes two stone fireplaces on the ground floor and two on the first floor, one of which is moulded while the others are plain chamfered, all but one featuring wooden bressumers. The roof has clasped purlins with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters, along with vertical queen-struts to collars in the former right gable end of the left section. The left section also has heavier-scantling timber.