Birling Place

BIRLING CP STANGATE ROAD TQ 66 SE (west side) 3/110 Birling Place -

• II

House. Possibly C15, with C16. C18 and C19 alterations. South front: Red and blue brick with hipped plain tiled roofs and 2 valleys either side of centre. 2 stacks, one at right side, one in left valley. 2 storeys; 5 bays, slightly recessed in centre. 4-window lst floor, glazing bar sashes, margin lights on ground floor. Central 6-panelled door with radiating fanlight over. West front: Red brick, 6-light stone mullion window with 4-centred arch heads on 1st floor to left. Odd remains of roll-moulding at cornice level to right of west side. North front: Red brick, rendered on 1st floor to right. Projecting hipped gabled wing to left. 2 storeys to right, with irregular fenestration of 3 windows. 2 storeys and attic to left, with 2 dormers and fenestration of 3 windows on 1st floor, and 2 windows on ground floor. Casements, except glazing bar sashes on lst floor of projecting wing. Main entrance to left of projecting wing with projecting hipped weather porch and boarded door. Interior: long chamfered wooden bressumer to fireplace. Aisle posts of original timber-framed hall survive in dining room. C19 staircase with turned balusters. Roof over original hall is a simple rafter-type roof with no purlins or trusses. The site of the house is the earliest known property of the Nevill family in England. The original timber-framed block probably originally took the form of an aisled hall with a uniform scantling roof, on the earliest of timber-framed hall-house types in south-east England.

Listing NGR: TQ6738261568