Jenkins

This is a house, likely originally a farmhouse, believed to date back to approximately 1594. It incorporates a 17th-century inserted chimneystack and an 18th-century outshut to the northwest. The ground floor was underbuilt and largely refenestrated in the 18th century, with a porch added to the south in the mid-20th century. Extensive 20th-century additions to the west are not of particular architectural interest. The building is timberframed with brick infilling and tile-hanging to the first floor of the south side, and has a half-hipped roof clad in 20th-century tiles, featuring a central brick chimneystack.

The original plan consisted of three bays, with a narrow central smoke bay. The south side contained a hearth room, while to the north, the space was formerly divided into a buttery and pantry. Externally, timberframing is visible on the east, north, and south fronts, and internally on the west front. The timberframing is characterized by good scantling and curved tension braces, with hoisting grooves in the main posts indicating the use of props during construction. Brick infilling and underbuilding are present on the east and south sides. The original entrance, centrally located on the east front, has been blocked, and access is now through a mid-20th-century porch on the south side.

Internally, the ground floor north and south room spine beam and floor joists appear to be from the 18th century. A mid-20th-century brick fireplace has been inserted into the 17th-century chimneystack in the south ground floor room. The kitchen is located within the 18th-century outshut, revealing the original 16th-century northwest wall frame, which includes a curved tension brace, an original diamond-mullioned window (with one original mullion), and a projecting rafter foot. The first floor north room exhibits exposed 16th-century beams to all walls, a queenpost roof, original wide floorboards, and a formerly external mullioned window set into the west wall. The south first floor room shows the top of the wallplate and cornerposts, along with a queenpost roof. A partition wall contains an original cupboard with a plank door hung on pintle hinges to the west of the fireplace. A 1983 inspection by the Domestic Buildings Research Group (Surrey) revealed that the central bay of the roof was lined with wattle and daub made of split oak, heavily sooted. Carpenter's assembly marks are also present. The building was noted as Jenkins Farm on an 1874 Ordnance Survey map and was, within living memory at the turn of the 20th century, a carter's cottage. This is an interesting 16th-century three-bay smoke bay house with a 17th-century chimneystack and an 18th-century outshut.