Baretilt

Baretilt is a house located on Water Lane in Hawkhurst, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with cladding from the 18th century. It features a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys tall, with a gabled roof on the left side and a hipped roof on the right, including stacks on the left and at the right end. The first floor has three two-light wooden casements, while the ground floor has a three-light casement to the left and a half-glazed door set in a glazed porch with pantiles to the centre right. There are outshuts on both the left and right sides, each with wooden casements.

Inside, the house is fully framed with chamfered jowled posts, all secured with iron strap-ties to the tie beams. The spine beams are tongue stop-chamfered, and there is a base made of sandstone and brick for the stack. The right end bay has an inserted floor, but the framing suggests that this area was originally a single storey open to the roof, although it was likely not of hall house origin.