Felthams

364/0/10011 02-FEB-05

GILLINGHAM CHURCH LANE Milton on Stour Felthams

II

House, formerly farmhouse. C17 with C18, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Rubble walling bedded in clay with a clay render and plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: doorway to right of centre with gabled C20 porch and C19 half-glazed door. At either side are sash windows. To the first floor are 3 sash windows. To the left is a bay added in the C18 with windows to both floors and at left again is a C20 colour-washed extension. All the sashes across this front are C19, horned and have 4 panes. The east gable end has a 4-pane sash to the ground floor and a 2-pane C20 attic window. There is an extensive outshut to the rear with catslide roof. Interior: The cross passage has a boarded C17 partition. There are several original boarded doors and a chamfered and end-stopped main beam with joists, also of the C17. There are wide floorboards to the C17 portion of the house and rounded chimney breasts and a complete C17 roof with trenched purlins and rafters. To the ground floor living room is a rebuilt ingle-nook fireplace and an C18 china cupboard in the thickness of the rear wall. The staircase in the cross passage is C19. A good example of a C17 yeoman's farmhouse which is largely intact with later additions which are themselves interesting and do not greatly disturb the original fabric.