Description

GILLINGHAM

TQ86NW LOWER TWYDALL LANE, Twydall
686-1/8/123 (South East side)
24/02/50 Manor House and attached garden wall
(Formerly Listed as:
TWYDALL LANE, Twydall
(South East side)
Twydall Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C17-early C18, extended C18 and late C19.
Brick, mathematical tile side range, with brick gable and
lateral stacks, and tiled roof.
PLAN: L-shaped single-depth plan with C18 N extension, and
late C19 S extension.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; road front 3-window range. Complex of
various builds; Flemish bond road front has a moulded plat
band, with a left-hand boarded door, and rubbed brick flat
arches to 8/8-pane sashes in flush frames; the late C19
right-hand 1-window section has a lower end with paired gables
with raised kneelers and central blind windows to both floors,
extending half the depth of the end gable which has brick
coping, a 6/6-pane attic sash with a flush frame, and a large
exterior stack part enclosed by the extension.
Rear wing has a straight joint in from the header bond rear
gable, which has a stack, brick coping, the bond extending up
to a straight joint, from which Flemish bond extends to the
front range.
At the N end is third section set forward from the main
entrance, of C18 header bond with 2 ground-floor windows and a
lateral stack, and a canted oriel in the left-hand return with
8/8-pane and flanking 4/4-pane sashes.
The rear has a gabled dormer with 8/8-pane sash.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick wall with coped top
extending approx. 100m round garden to N. The N section has
battered buttresses.
HISTORY: formerly the farmhouse accompanying the other listed
farm buildings, including the fine C15 Twydall Barn (qv), with
which it has group value.

Listing NGR: TQ8034167914

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550807

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living