Description

TQ 55 SE IGHTHAM COACH ROAD
3/2 (west side)

Ivors

II

Hall-house. Late C15 with additions of C16 and C20. The lower end and part of the
former hall were demolished following bomb damage in the Second World War, leaving
slightly more than half the hall and the solar end. Painted brick ground floor with
some exposed framing. Tile-hung to right above. Painted plaster above jetty over
ground floor resting on exposed brackets to left. Stock brick elevations on right
return side and rear. Plain tile roof with left slope stack and right end ridge
stack. Return gable to left with exposed framing and roughcast infilling. C16
scalloped barge-boards. C19 gable semi-dormer, also with exposed framing and
roughcast infilling. Two storeys; 2 window first floor, 3 window ground floor,
casements. Door to right of left-hand window, under right-hand end of jetty.
Four-panel door, possibly moved from a neighbouring window position which has flat
door hood, possibly C18. Two storey brick C20 extension to rear, one storey brick C20
garage to right. Interior: Drawing room. Inserted C16 ceiling of chamfered beams.
Chamfered wooden fireplace bressumer in shape of very wide and shallow 4-centred
arch. Decorated wall-posts, formally dividing hall in half, carrying tie-beam with
arched bracing, now in bedroom above. Tie-beam with arched-bracing from solar,
exposed in wall between bathroom and passage and smaller bedroom. Crown-post of solar
wing survives, but Crown-post roof over hall has been rebuilt.

Listing NGR: TQ5871854364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26644299

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