Ivors

TQ 55 SE IGHTHAM COACH ROAD 3/2 (west side)

Ivors

II

Hall-house. Late C15 with additions of C16 and C20. The lower end and part of the former hall were demolished following bomb damage in the Second World War, leaving slightly more than half the hall and the solar end. Painted brick ground floor with some exposed framing. Tile-hung to right above. Painted plaster above jetty over ground floor resting on exposed brackets to left. Stock brick elevations on right return side and rear. Plain tile roof with left slope stack and right end ridge stack. Return gable to left with exposed framing and roughcast infilling. C16 scalloped barge-boards. C19 gable semi-dormer, also with exposed framing and roughcast infilling. Two storeys; 2 window first floor, 3 window ground floor, casements. Door to right of left-hand window, under right-hand end of jetty. Four-panel door, possibly moved from a neighbouring window position which has flat door hood, possibly C18. Two storey brick C20 extension to rear, one storey brick C20 garage to right. Interior: Drawing room. Inserted C16 ceiling of chamfered beams. Chamfered wooden fireplace bressumer in shape of very wide and shallow 4-centred arch. Decorated wall-posts, formally dividing hall in half, carrying tie-beam with arched bracing, now in bedroom above. Tie-beam with arched-bracing from solar, exposed in wall between bathroom and passage and smaller bedroom. Crown-post of solar wing survives, but Crown-post roof over hall has been rebuilt.

Listing NGR: TQ5871854364