Description

TQ 54 SE SPELDHURST ETHERINGTON HILL

4/473 Little Bote House

17.7.90
II

Former farmhouse, once cottages. Probably C17, maybe earlier origins,
enlarged in late C19, some C20 modernisation. Timber-framed. Ground floor
underbuilt with Flemish bond red brick, older brickwork includes burnt
headers. Original footings of coursed sandstone. Brick stacks, perhaps the
oldest one has a sandstone base, brick chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: 4-room lobby entrance plan house facing east, built up the hillslope
and end onto the road. Main rooms the two to left (south) and a large axial
stack between them serves back-to-back fireplaces. Lobby entrance in front of
this stack. Room right of centre has rear lateral stack and right end room
has projecting end stack. A straight join in the front brick work indicates
that the right (northern) 2 rooms were added to the front two or that there
were less substantial rooms that end which were later rebuilt. It would seem
that the front 2 rooms are the historic core of the house. However, without
an internal inspection it is not possible to ascertain room function or
determine the historic development of the house.

House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and lean-to outshots on the
right end and to rear.

Exterior: Irregular 5-window front. First floor windows are C19, 4 16-pane
sashes with an 8-pane sash above and to right of the front doorway. Ground
floor windows are C20 timber mullion-and-transom windows, some containing
rectangular or diamond panes of leaded glass. Front doorway is left of
centre. Here a C20 sandstone gabled porch has a Tudor arch containing a
reused or reset C19 door panelled in Tudor style. Tall and steeply pitched
roof is half-hipped to right and hipped to left. The left (south) end wall,
at the downhill end, is tile hung right down to the footings.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. C17
(maybe earlier) carpentry is suspected.

Listing NGR: TQ5618141729

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533294

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House