Baker'S Farmhouse

GOUDHURST LADHAM ROAD TQ 73 NW (north side) 5/202 Baker's Farmhouse 20.6.67 II House. Circa 1400 extended mid C16. Timber framed and part exposed close-studding with plaster infill, ground floor part refaced with red brick. Tile hung on 1 st floor with plain tiled roof. Hall house with rear wing and cross-wing. Two storeys, with eaves-dropping to first floor (the close-studding exposed behind it). Hipped roof, with projecting hipped wing to right. Stacks projecting at end right and end left, and clustered to centre right. Two 3 light leaded wooden casements on 1st floor with 4 light to right and 4 light and 5 light casements on ground floor with central C16 brick bay with 4 light mullioned and transomed leaded lights. Ribbed plank and shed doors in moulded surrounds to centre right and at end right. C20 outshot to end left. The duplications of main posts in the re-entrant between hall range and cross wing clearly shows the 2 periods of build- ing. Interior: the hall with inserted moulded wall posts and cross beamed ceiling and small panelled framed dividing walls. Large inglenook fireplaces of stone and red brick. Cross-wing with good quality ovolos and fillet moulded mullioned windows with sidelights to ground and first floors (fully exposed on right return exterior elevation). Hall main tie beam with massive hollow chamfered knee braces. Cross-wing with clasped purlins and windbrace roof. (See Kent Life, April 1975 quoting RCHM report).

Listing NGR: TQ7395539471