Saynden Farmhouse

STAPLEHURST FIVE OAK LANE TQ 74 SE (South side)

3/90 Saynden Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C18 with C19 alterations and C20 additions. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Banded plain and fishscale tiles to first floor. Plain tile roof. L-plan, with rear return wing to right. Front range comprises central entrance- hall and stair-well, with one room each side. Single-bay rear wing. Later rear addition infilling angle. Single-bay C20 addition in same materials to front and rear at left end. 2 storeys and attic on chamfered brick plinth. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right, hip returning. Half-hipped roof to rear right wing, and to C19 wing. Rear stacks to right and left of C18 house, and to rear of left addition. 2 hipped dormers. Irregular fenestration of six 2-light casements; a regular 5-window front to the C18 house, and one casement to left addition. Segmental head to ground-floor window. Panelled and studded door with 2 top lights and flat corniced and bracketed hood, under third window from right (to centre of C18 house). Interior: chamfered axial beams. Staircase with C19 painted iron anthemion balusters and wreathed wooden handrail. Staggered butt purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TQ7703242298