Westerhill is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Westerhill
- WRENN ID
- inner-pedestal-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely dating back to the 15th or early 16th century, with a later 18th-century facade. The structure is timber framed and exhibits a mix of materials. The ground floor is constructed of chequered red and grey brick, while the first floor is clad with boarding designed to resemble rusticated masonry. It has a plain tile roof. The building may originally have been a Wealden house, featuring jetties, with the addition of a narrow left hall bay built out later to align with the left-hand bay. It is two storeys and has an attic. A brick plinth sits on a stone base, and the boarding indicates a higher midrail on the right hall bay. The roof is hipped. A brick ridge stack, with stone below the roof line, is situated on the probable left hall bay, and a smaller rear stack is towards the right end. The eaves of the recessed right hall bay are raised to form a gable, boarded on the first floor and containing a two-light attic casement. The fenestration is irregular, featuring four sash windows: three with 16 panes and one with 12 panes, all in open boxes. Similar windows are present on the ground floor. A panelled front door, located beneath the stack below the second window from the left, has a patterned rectangular fanlight, plain pilasters and a flat, bracketed hood. A 18th-century red and grey brick return wing extends to the left rear, and a 18th-century weatherboarded stair turret is in the re-entrant angle. A lean-to addition is situated at the rear of the main range. The interior features shutter grooves on the first floor at the right gable end and the rear wall of the right end bay. There are changes in first-floor levels across the centre of the building. A modillioned 18th-century cornice is found in the ground-floor right end room. Chamfered beams, an 18th-century cornice and a corner cupboard are present in the ground-floor room of the wing.
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