Dormers

STAN HILL 1. 5387 (west side) Dormers TQ 2441 5/21 II 2. Late C15 hall-house of 4 bays with 2 bay open hall and both ends floored, with modern wing in matching style built on to the north. Two storeys timber-framed on base of Charlwood stone. Square framing with curved braces. Plaster or painted brick infilling. Hipped thatched roof with 2 dormers. Three casement windows. The original front entrance is blocked and the doorcase is now in the side elevation. The interior has 3 crown posts. There are traces of an added smoke bay and a beam across from the open truss from which bacon flitches were hung to smoke. Jowls to upright posts. This is one of only 2 remaining Mediaeval thatched houses in Charlwood. (See Domestic Buildings Rejearch Group Report No 8. Joan M Harding "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" p 41).

Listing NGR: TQ2417041589