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TQ 96 SW
2/162

TEYNHAM
LOWER ROAD (south side)
Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall

27.8.52

GV
II*

House, now residential home. C16, 1668 for Ralph Clerke, early C18 for Sir Joseph Taylor. Rear range timber framed and exposed with painted brick and plaster infill and part clad with red brick, front range of brick work. Plain tiled roofs. Four bay late medieval hall house in moated site remodelled 1668 with parallel range added to east early C18.

Front range: two storeys attic and basement on plinth with plat band projecting centre piece with coved top, and moulded modillion eaves cornice to roof, half hipped to left with parapet with central segment headed dormer and flat C20 dormer to right, and kneelered gable and stack to right. Regular fenestration of five C20 glazing bar sashes in box surrounds on first floor and four on ground floor with segmental heads. Central door of six raised and fielded panels and two glazed panels at head of flight of three steps with sweeping iron rails, with pilaster surround and scrolled pediment on consoles. Basement openings to left.

Rear Range: two storeys and four gables withbressummers carved with billet mould, crenellation, and vine motifs, that centre left dated 1668; end left with part painted circular bracing. Three stacks. Rebuilt porch to left initialled: N. G.

Interior: the porch in rear range leads into old screens passage, with two arched doorways to service area; possible remodelled crown post roof. Early C18 stair case, four flights around open well (complicated by C20 fire screens), with wreathed and moulded handrail, and turned balusters, and banded pendants and finials. Wall to road to east of house, of red brick in English bond, four foot in height, swept down twice to east of house, on plinth, extending approximately 30 yards.

[see BOE, Kent II, 1983, 475, E Selby, Teynham Manor and Hundred, 1982, 39]

Listing NGR: TQ9484063391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546250

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)