Flishinghurst House

CRANBROOK GOUDHURST ROAD TQ 73 NE (south side) 3/122 Flishinghurst House 9.6.52 GV II

Hall-house, now house. Later C15, floored in C16, with C17-C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed on rendered plinth with some C19 close studding and curved braces. Plaster infilling. Plain tiled half hipped roofs. Hall- house plan, now much altered. 2 storeys and attics with tall brick stack in centre of east range with tall C20 Elizabethan-style brick stack on north range and brick stack on south range. EAST SIDE: Return half hipped gable end of south range to left. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows on both floors to right and 1 window in gable to left with central windows on both floors flanked by wide low ranges of windows under wall-plates. Boarded and ribbed door in centre of front with early C20 pentice-roofed weather-porch on 2 timber supports. SOUTH SIDE: 1 hipped dormer to left. C18 block to left with exposed framing of thin scantling on 1st floor and diagonal braces. Jetty to right with dragon-beam and post at south-west corner, rebuilt in C17. Larger block of 2 storeys to north of early C20 date with exposed framing. INTERIOR: Substantial timber frame visible. Chamfered ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: TQ7567637565