Lower Newlands

TQ 96 SE TEYNHAM DEERTON STREET (south side)

3/152 Lower Newlands 27.8.52 GV II Hall house, now house. Circa 1380 and C15. Timber framed and exposed with painted brick and plaster infill and part underbuilt with painted brick. Plain tiled roof. Central 2 bay hall range with projecting chamber blocks either end. Centre of 1 storey and attic with large panel frame and tension and arched bracing, wings of 2 storeys, on flint plinth with hipped roofs and gablets and 2 gabled dormers. Stack to centre right and large offset and freestanding coursed rubble stack with red brick flue at end left. Left cross wing jettied on dragon posts, the right originally jettied but now underbuilt in brick. One wood casement on each floor of wings, and 1 wood casement in central range with door of 6 raised and fielded panels in gabled porch to centre right aligned with original screens passage entry. Interior: hall ceiled over and stack inserted 1611, dated on mantel over fireplace in right hand cross-wing. This wing with crown post roof. Smoke blackened timbers over hall range. Either side of the inserted stack are 2 vertical timbers of great scantling, which may indicate the hall range was originally aisled. Stone fire surround in lefthand cross-wing. Fine series of C18 bolection moulded raised and fielded panelled doors. Brick lined copper in kitchen [right end wing].

Listing NGR: TQ9708762449