Nettlestead Green House

NETTLESTEAD MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 65 SE (West side) 1/11 Nettlestead 23-5-67 Green House (Formerly listed as Green Farm House) GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C14 or early C15, with alterations of C16 or early C17, C19 and 1920s. Timber framed, clad with weatherboarding. Right gable end rebuilt in roughly coursed ragstone. Plain tile roof. 5 timber-framed bays open hall of 2 roughly equal-length bays, with storeyed end bays, that to right with further integral narrow bay to its right end. 2 storeys on ragstone plinth. Gable end jetty to left. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of right hall bay, and gable end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded windows; one three-light casement to left end bay, another in a weatherboarded through dormer with hipped plain tile roof to each hall bay, and one small four-light diamond mullion window with latticed glazing towards right end. Boarded door to right end of right hall bay. Short two-storey weatherboarded 1920s rear wing to left, with plain tile roof and brick stack. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam. Shaped jowls to principal posts. Moulded central truss posts. Chamfered central tie-beam with hollow-chamfered arch braces which would have met towards centre. Slender moulded octagonal crown post. Chamfered cornice-beam extant along rear wall of hall. Plain end-of-hall crown posts with foot braces. Two chamfered pointed-arched service doors to right end of hall, and plain architrave in same wall towards rear, to solid-tread stairs rising within storeyed right bay. Chamfered cross beam and joists to inserted hall floor. Brick fireplace.

Listing NGR: TQ6822651131