Lower Knowle Hill Farmhouse

ULCOMBE KNOWLE HILL TQ 84 NE Lower Knowle Hill 6/187 Farmhouse 26.4.68 GV II

Said to have been Rectory, now farmhouse. Mid C16 with C17 additions and mid C19 alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation clad with alternate bands of plain and fishscale tiles, right gable end weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. 6 timber-framed bays; second and third bays from left form hall of 2 unequal-length bays with narrow smoke-bay to right end of longer right bay. Left end bay of house formerly subdivided. 2 storeys and garret on stone plinth. Cellar to right end. Short C19 wing projecting to front at left end, narrower C17 one to centre and narrow but longer C17 wing to right end, forming irregular E-plan. 2 latter wings have eaves jettied on curved and shaped brackets. All have thin close- studding and waved bargeboards. Roof of C19 wing forms hip to left end of main range. Tall multiple brick stack on moulded plinth with corbelled top and base of circular upper flue, in front slope of roof towards left end [in left bay of hall] Multiple brick ridge stack to right end. Irregular fenestration of 5 three-light casements; one to each outer wing, one to central wing with returning side-lights; and one to either side of central wing. Half-glazed door with stained glass in half- glazed, gabled porch between left and central wings. Lean-to to right. Short rendered 2-storey addition to rear half of house to left. Interior: exposed timbers. C17 beams of heavy scantling to both floors, some inserted. Ovolo-moulded mullion windows. C17 turned balusters to landing. Moulded brackets to ground-floor beams. Plain crown-posts to left half of house, clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters to right half.

Listing NGR: TQ8589248958