Description

TR 14 SE ELHAM CANTERBURY ROAD
(west side)

Ottinge
4/51 Boyke Manor
29.12.66
GV II*

Farmhouse, now house. C15 or early C16, with C17 and later alterations.
Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Painted brick infilling to
ground floor of hall and right end. Red brick to ground floor of
left addition, and, with plat band, to whole of left gable end. Plain
tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of two timber-framed bays, and
storeyed end bays. Fifth bay added to left in C17 or later. 2 storeys,
on flint and stone plinth. Broadly-spaced studding. Pair of ogee
tension braces to first floor of storeyed left bay, single tension
brace to right hall bay, and pair to each floor of storeyed right
bay. Ground floor of storeyed left bay close-studded. Broadly-spaced
studding and central full-height post to right gable end. Long rail
of large scantling, probably cill of former hall window, towards base
of left hall bay. Storeyed end bays jettied to front. Solid-spandrel
bracket under left bay has engaged shaft under it with moulded head
and worn base. Traces of similar shafts to left and central brackets
of right jetty. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Left hall bay has
short moulded and brattished rail (transom of former hall window?)
towards centre, above jetty level but at level of inserted hall floor.
To right of centre of bay, a short (C17?) stub beam is unusually
cantilevered out to support a jowled post which clasps the flying wall-
plate. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Brick stack in left hip (in
added left bay). Red and grey brick in front slope of roof to left
end of shorter right hall bay. Gable-end stack to right. Small eaves
dormer with hipped plain-tile roof and three leaded lights to left
hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows; one two-light leaded
casement to left end, one similar three-light casement to storeyed
left bay, one ten-light mullioned window with hollow-chamfered mullions
and central stud or king mullion to left hall bay, one four-light
window with hollow-chamfered mullions to left end of right hall bay,
with similar but later four-light window beside it to right and one
two-light leaded casement to storeyed right bay. Storeyed left bay
has rectangular ground-floor bay window on red and grey brick plinth,
with three-light leaded casement and brick side-pieces. Evidence for
former frieze windows. Leaded three-light casement to left hall bay,
flush with wall, but with brick plinth of a former bay window under
it. Ribbed door with moulded and brattished strip over it, to right
end of hall. Short C20 rear return wing to right, brick on ground
floor, tile-hung above, with half-hipped plain tile roof. Interior:
exposed framing. Plain left end-of-hall beam over broadly-spaced
stud partition, and with tension-braced central stud to first-floor
partition above. Moulded and brattished right end-of-hall beam, also
with tension-braced partition over. Gunstock-jowled posts. Octagonal
central crown post with moulded base and moulded rectangular capital.
Ogee foot braces to plain end-of-hall crown posts. Axial tie-beams
to right and left end rooms. Pair of four-centred-arched service
doors with hollow spandrels to right end of hall on ground floor.
Chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists to inserted hall floor.
Moulded stone fireplace with wooden bressumer. Four blocked niches
to right side of (brick) stack on first floor. Added left bay almost
entirely occupied by stack, with two triangular-headed niches in
back of stack to left, and brick ground-floor fireplace to right
with chamfered four-centred arched bressumer and enriched C17 wooden
overmantel with reeded pilasters.

Listing NGR: TR1674342410

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546056

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)