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MULBERRY COTTAGE, 73, HIGH STREET, SNODLAND, ME6 5AL Grade 2* listed building.

II* Hall-house. Circa 1450, restored 1932. Timber-framing with plaster-infilling; some close-studding in first floor central recess and curved braces over jettied overhangs. Classical Wealden hall-house with first floor jetties and recess in centre over which the roof-eaves are supported on curved side braces and single brace rising from off-centre wall-post. Plain tiled roof, hipped with gablets. Hipped dormer off-centre to right and brick stacks, off-centre to left and at right end. Two storeys; irregular fenestration of seven windows on first floor, (five windows continuously under eaves in recess) and seven windows on ground-floor, (four windows continuously under jetty to right). Front frame lattice casements. Entrances at rear, both C16 boarded and ribbed doors in moulded wooden Tudor arch surrounds.

 

Interior: evidence of substantial timber-frame. Low arched moulded bressummer over drawing-fireplace. Framed and plaster-infilling smoke bay. Crown-post, collar-purlin roof with moulded octagonal crown-post.

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Uploaded on August 19, 2021