Barretts Green Farmhouse

HAWKHURST HEARTENOAK ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (west side) 17/326 Barretts Green Farmhouse - II House. C15, altered and extended late C16, clad early C18. Timber framed and tile hung on red and blue brick ground floor, the brickwork in different bonds and builds. Plain tiled roof. Hall house, part rebuilt to lobby entry plan. Two storeys, with roof hipped to left, stepped up and half-hipped to right, with stack to centre left. Three wooden casements on first floor, 2 on ground floor, those to left on each floor set at lower level. Boarded door to centre left. Catslide outshot to rear. Interior: soot blackened rafters to earlier, hipped section of roof, staggered purlin to C16 half-glazed roof. Frame visible, with tension- braced large panels to earlier section. Massive chamfered spine beam in later section. Very large stack of dressed sandstone, with 13 feet wide inglenook with chamfered bressummer. Upper storey with brick fireplace with chamfered wooden bressummer, and stone fireplace with chamfered jambs, stopped half-height with fleur-de-lys. Wooden newel stair to attic dated: W.1738.

Listing NGR: TQ7614230783