Little Pagehurst

STAPLEHURST THORN ROAD TQ 74 SE (North side)

3/175 Little Pagehurst 23.5.67 GV II

Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with later alterations. Timber framed. Most of left end bay and part of right end bay clad with red and grey brick in English bond to ground floor. Rest of front elevation weatherboarded. First floor of left gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of 2 slightly unequal-length timber- framed bays, and with storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and garret. Right and left end bays jettied to front. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Solid-spandrel bracket under central tie-beam end. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right with gablet. Slightly-projecting red and grey brick stack in English bond to left gable end. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of shorter right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded wood mullion windows; one 3-light to left end bay, one 3-light to left hall bay, rising through eaves with flying wall-plate cut away in front of it, one small 2-light over door, and one 2-light to right end bay. Ribbed door with 4-centred-arched head to right end of right hall bay, with blocked 4-centred-arched doorway in rear wall opposite. Rear wing to left, set back from left gable end and with lower ridge; red and grey brick in header bond to ground floor, weatherboarded above, with half-hipped plain tile roof. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7711043288