Headcorn Place

Headcorn Place is a farmhouse dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations made in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is timber framed, with the ground floor and gable ends covered in weatherboarding, while the first floor of the front elevation is tile-hung. The building has a plain tile roof and features a Wealden design, consisting of a hall with two slightly unequal-length bays and storeyed end bays. It stands two storeys high with an attic. The right and left end bays project outwards, supported by moulded dragon posts, and the gable end jetties are underbuilt. There is an unbraced flying wall-plate and a solid bracket supporting the central tie-beam. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with gablets. A multiple brick ridge stack is located at the centre of the longer right hall bay, and there is a slender projecting stack on the left gable end. A small gabled dormer is present, along with irregular fenestration that includes four casements: one with two lights and three with three lights. The entrance features a ribbed door with a shallow flat hood positioned under the stack. To the left, there is a two-storey weatherboarded rear return wing from the 18th century, which has a boarded door on the first floor and an external step ladder. Additionally, there is a low single-storey L-plan bakehouse made of red and grey brick to the left side of the left wing, and a rear lean-to extends across all but the right end of the building. The interior has not been inspected.