Description

WEST MALLING

TQ6837 KING STREET
1156-0/3/102 Nos.16 AND 18
Prior's Cottage and The Priors

GV II*

House (one property despite 2 names). Probably C15 open hall
house of 4 bays (No 18) with integral projecting cross wing
(No 16) with C16 inserted ceiling and windows, restored C20.
Timber-framed building with plaster infill and steeply pitched
tiled roof with large external brick stack to No 18 and
renewed stack to No 16. No 18 is of 2 storeys 4 windows.
Framing exposed with curved tension braces. Roof has gablet to
left-hand side. Front has 4 original mullioned windows to 1st
floor with leaded lights. Ground floor has 3 original
mullioned windows and right-hand inserted 5-light mullioned
oriel window on brackets, also with leaded lights. Arched
doorcase with recessed spandrels. C19 cast-iron fluted water
pump in front of chimneystacks. No 16 is also of 2 storeys 4
bays. Timber-framed with plaster infill. Right-side rear
ground floor is of whitewashed rubble and is on a rubble and
brick plinth. Front has gable with curved tension braces and
pattern to attic. Jetty. 1st floor has paired original
mullioned window. Ground floor has restored mullioned window.
Left side elevation has 1 mullioned window and 2 curved
tension braces. Right side has 5 restored mullions on 1st
floor and ground floor has one set of paired mullions. C20
recessed wooden cupboard door in antique style. Modern
penticed porch in timber-framing on stone rubble plinth with
tiled roof to rear. Dining room, a former open hall, has a
fine C16 chestnut roll-moulded inserted ceiling. Hall has
beams with run-out stops and ground floor room to extreme left
has an open fireplace with wooden bressumer. Open fireplace to
right-hand front room. Crown posts with head braces and collar
purlins and gunstock jowled posts. The framing in both parts
of the building appears identical.

Listing NGR: TQ6803257908

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546916

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey