Rats Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. A C16 Farmhouse.
Rats Castle
- WRENN ID
- calm-render-solstice
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 65 SW PLAXTOL ROUGHWAY LANE 4/32 (south side)
1.8.52 Rats Castle II*
Farmhouse. Possibly C14 much altered especially in C16, C19 and C20. Timber-framed. Random galletted rubble stone ground floor, underbuilt to conceal the jetty above. Tile-hung first floor Steep hipped plain tiled roof with gablets and small return gable over projecting 2-storey bay. Two gables behind and 2 dormers to west. Two storeys with attic and cellar in south-west corner. Three windows to north, very irregular, casements. Off-centre Tudor doorway with moulded arched brick surround, the imposts carved stone with sphinx-like masks. Initials S. C. (Stephen Chilman, owner) in gable, of Elizabethan date. Modern one-storey verandah to south with balcony over. Interior. Half of hall opened. Decorated beam at east and of hall C16 fireplace with wooden bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ6255553083
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