Description

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM HIGH STREET
(East Side)

9/31 The Rose and Crown Inn
29.12.66
GV II

Coaching Inn. C15 or early C16, left end rebuilt in Cl7, right end added
or partly rebuilt in circa 1740. Early C19 alterations and fenestration.
Timber framed. Exposed framing with painted brick infilling to left
end bay, rest rendered, probably over brick. Chann elled render to right
return. Plain tile roof. Probably open hall of two timber-framed bays.
Cross-wing to right of two timber framed bays, projecting to rear and
incorporating undershot cross-passage. Hall and any storeyed left end
bay largely rebuilt in C17, their rear wall almost flush with rear gable
end of cross-wing. 2 storeys, on brick plinth. Facade of left end bay
apparently subdivided by principal posts into three short timber-framed
bays (one bay internally), in "square" framing of two panels per storey.
Facade of former open hall,wing, and right section has rendered plat
band, eaves band and parapet. Parapet stepped up in front of stack.
Hipped roof, hips returning to rear with lower ridges. Four rendered
stacks; one to rear to left,one in rear slope to left of centre (in former
right hall bay), one ridge stack towards centre (to right side of cross-
wing), and one projecting to right gable end. Ridge stack towards rear
of right wing. Irregular fenestration of 8 un-paned sashes with narrow
top, bottom and margin lights; one towards centre of left section and
seven irregularly-spaced to rest (one under, one to left and five to
right of left-central stack). Nine similar windows to ground floor,
and one small three-light casement. Double doors, each of three flush
panels, with shallow swept and consoled hood, under left-central stack.
Half-glazed door with flat bracketed hood towards centre of left section.
Left return terminates in short brick rear gable end, with roof hipped
to rear. Virtually flush two storey section with same eaves, presently
flat-roofed, forming rear elevation of rest of left section and former
hall. Gable end of cross-wing tile-hung on first floor, and roof hipped
to rear with same eaves but lower ridge than main range. Further brick
gable end adjacent to right, in line with rear elevation of left section
and with rear hip. Rear lean-to between it and long rear right return
wing, left side of which is red and grey brick in header bond. 1740
datestone to right gable end. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed
framing to ground floor. Beam forming left side of cross wing is hollow-
chamfered to right only, and morticed for large stud towards front and
rear. Chamfered cross beam set to front of centre of cross wing (signed
with centre of former hall). Broad close-set joists, pair towards left
side of wing morticed for partition (right side of former cross-passage)
with pair of doorways flanking cross beam. To right of doorways, cross
beam is morticed for partition with doorway to right end of it. Later
joists round stack in right hall bay. Bevelled cross-beam to left of
stack, and two chamfered axial beams and bevelled joists to former left
hall bay. Bevelled axial joists to left end bay. Said to have been
built circa 1514, licensed as an ale-house in 1540. First floor of central
section said to have been used as Court House in late Cl7 and C18 (owner's
text). See also items 9/32 and 9/67 .

Listing NGR: TR1766043908

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Rose And Crown Inn official website
• Wikidata Q26553191

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