Description

AYLESFORD CP ROCHESTER ROAD
TQ 76 SW
(south side)
4/86
Hale Close
-

- II

Hall house, now house. Circa 1470-1500, with alterations and additions of
C16-C20. Timber-framed, clad in painted brick, painted plaster, painted random
rubble stone and some creosoted weather-boarding. Plain tiled roof, hipped to
right, half-hipped to left with half-hipped cross-wing to rear and gabled C18
extension to right with projecting C20 half-hipped wing. Main brick ridge stack
to right of main block. Secondary stack with wide projecting breast on front of
main block in centre. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 2 windows on both
floors of main block, and 2 windows on both floors of subsidiary block. C20
boarded and ribbed door under over-hang of former right-hand jetty, which rests
on joist-ends and 2 curved brackets Interior: substantial evidence of timber-
framing. Some internal alterations c.1950 reputedly by Robert Lutyens. The
main block seems originally to have been a Wealden-type hall house but this was
truncated later, possibly in the C17, at the north end.

Listing NGR: TQ7319859030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26324536

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover