Iddenden

HAWKHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7430-7530 (south side) 16/351 Iddenden

GV II House. C15 and clad C17-C18, with C20 extensions to rear. Timber framed and clad with painted brick on sandstone base,with some exposed late studding to rear with rendered infill. Plain tiled roof. End jettied hall house in origin. Two storeys with hipped roof and gablet, and stack to centre right. Two-light, 4-light and 3-light leaded casements on each floor and all at decreasing heights from left to right. Boarded door to centre left in gabled porch. Catslide out- shot to rear, and glazed pentice to C20 wing in matching materials and scale. Interior: soot blackened crown post roof, the principal crown post now truncated and to the end left of the present house, the bay or bays beyond now missing. Arched braced and double chamfered cambered tie beam of large scantling. The end right bay represents the parlour end of the hall house, originally end jettied on internal evidence, with the lapped board panelling and dern-headed parlour door surviving, with moulded and brattished dais beam and mortice for a short project- ing length of this beam and wall to screen off the parlour door. Finely moulded beams throughout, the double wave chamfer being raised with a fillet to the run- out. Staggered, small canted C17 fireplaces. Much lathe and plaster internal walling survives.

Listing NGR: TQ7487430630