Description

CRANBROOK ANGLEY ROAD
TQ 73 NE
(north side)
3/3
Goddards Green Farmhouse
9.6.52 (formerly listed as
Goddard's Green)
- II*

Cloth hall, now farmhouse. C15 with C16 extensions. Timber-framed on part red
brick, part stone plinth. Plain tiled roofs with jettied return gables to left
and right; C15 wing to rear at left and deep C18 catslide. Cloth hall type plan.
2 storeys and attics with garrets in gables; 2 hipped dormers in centre. Jetty
over ground floor, perhaps partially underbuilt to left. Irregular 7-window
first floor and 5-window ground floor with 2-storey shallow bays under jetties
in gable ends. Mixture of square and diamond lattice wood-framed casements.
Boarded and ribbed door to right of centre window jetty with Tudor-arched
moulded surround. Interior: Substantial frame survives. Moulded service
doorways to screens passage as well as rear doorway of hall cross-passage.
Large wood-framed transom and mullion window survives to rear of hall, to right
of fireplace. 3-light open square well staircase to rear of hall with rather
bulbous columnar turned balusters and octagonal ball finials to newels, all
probably circa 1640.

Listing NGR: TQ7671035799

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547277

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)