Building record 0053101000 - GREAT HUNDRIDGE MANOR

PRESENT HOUSE BUILT 1696, 2 STOREYS, OF HALF-H SHAPE (B6).
NOW FARM HOUSE. MUST HAVE BEEN MEDIEVAL MANOR HOUSE ON SAME SITE, SINCE CHAPEL HERE FROM C12 (B1,4,5).
Grade II+. House. Late C17 extended C20. Flint rubble plinth, chequer brickwork, hipped old tile roof with wood modillion cornice, brick chimneys. 2 gabled dormers to each side slope. 2-storeys. Front of seven casement windows all with gauged brick flat arches and wood mullions and transomes. 2-light except for 1-light windows either side of door and either side of central first floor window; leaded glazing. Modern door with rectangular fanlight, pulvinated frieze and pediment hood on shaped brackets. First floor brick band with cyma reverse moulding. Rear elevation: 3 wide bays, the 2 outer ones projecting slightly with hipped old tile roof, central gabled dormer, 3 mullion-and-transome first floor windows with leaded glazing, Modern halfglazed doors with pediment over and 3-light-casement either side. Rear wings: On north east 1933 by Clough Williams-Ellis, neo-Georgian, brick, clay tile roof, 2-storeys, sash windows. On south east, linking house with Chapel (q.v.) 1950's, red brick, hipped clay tile roof with wood cornice, mullion-and-transome windows. Interior: (of original house) Fine late C17 bolection moulded panelling in both front first floor rooms. Similar panelling in ground floor left hand room which also has original fireplace flanked by fluted giant pilasters. Staircase with twisted balusters and panelled dado, three doorcases to landing with panelling, cornices and keyblocks (B7).