Description

GOUDHURST CRANBROOK ROAD
TQ 73 NW (north side)

5/154
Old Peacock Cottage
GV II
House. C16 or earlier. Timber-framed and part exposed with red brick infill on
sandstone base. First floor tile hung, and plain tiled roof. originally lobby-
entry plan. Two storey on plinth, with eaves drop to 1st floor. Half-hipped roof
with gablets , the hip-ends projecting and exposed (the wall plates are truncated
and exposed in both return elevations, suggesting the building originally extended
further both to left and to right. Stack cluster to centre right. Three light
and 2-light wooden casement on each floor. Lean-to outshot to right, open on
ground floor and forming porch to boarded door in right return. Blocked doorway
in left return. Catslide outshot to rear. Interior: very low room heights with
exposed frame of large scantling, with tongue-stopped chamfers with gunstock-
jowled main posts. Infilled inglenook fireplace.

Listing NGR: TQ7462437474

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432003

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (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)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)