Iddenden

Iddenden is a house dating from the 15th century, with cladding from the 17th and 18th centuries, and 20th-century extensions at the rear. It features a timber frame clad with painted brick on a sandstone base, with some exposed late studding at the rear and rendered infill. The roof is plain tiled and has an end jettied hall house design. The building has two storeys, a hipped roof with a gablet, and a central right stack. There are two-light, four-light, and three-light leaded casements on each floor, arranged at decreasing heights from left to right. A boarded door is located to the centre left within a gabled porch. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot and a glazed pentice to the 20th-century wing, constructed in matching materials and scale.

Inside, the crown post roof is soot blackened, with the principal crown post now truncated and positioned at the end left of the current house, while the bay or bays beyond are missing. The interior features an arched braced and double chamfered cambered tie beam of large scantling. The end right bay represents the parlour end of the hall house, which was originally end jettied according to internal evidence. Surviving elements include lapped board panelling and a dern-headed parlour door, along with a moulded and brattished dais beam that has a mortice for a short projecting length of this beam and wall to screen off the parlour door. The house has finely moulded beams throughout, with a double wave chamfer raised with a fillet to the run-out. There are staggered, small canted 17th-century fireplaces, and much of the internal walling is lathe and plaster.