Building record 1417400000 - Brick Kiln Farmhouse, Fullers Hill

Grade II. Farmhouse. C17 house with early-mid C19 additions and C20 alterations. House timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, refronted early-mid C20 in red brick in English bond and rest rendered; C19 additions of flint with brick quoins, strings, vertical scrips, surrounds and verges. Plain tile roofs; brick chimneys. C17 house of 1½ storeys, 2 bays, with central chimney; C19 single-storey outshut addition on right and 2-storey, 2-bay wing to rear left, bay linking C17 range to C19 addition largely demolished as at February 1991. Yard (east) elevation: 4-panel door in added porch to right bay; windows are small-pane wooden casements, on ground floor of 2 lights (2 to left bay) under segmental brick arches; on 1st floor of 4 lights in weatherboarded gablets; roof half-hipped on right and with central stack. Outshut has 3-light window with horizontal glazing bars, and chimney against main part of house. Rear: C17 part of house has 2-light windows to each floor, that on 1st floor probably C18, having leaded casement; small window to outshut. C19 wing has 6-panel door (top 2 panels glazed) formerly with 1-light window to left and 2-light window above, both now removed; a 3-light window-to each floor on right; openings have chamfered jambs and segmental arches and the windows metal casements with diagonal glazing bars; end stack on right. Interior: house has chamfered spine beams, that in left room with stepped cyma stops; also in this room, large fireplace (inglenook infilled) with door to former stair beside it. On 1st floor more of the timber frame is visible, comprising jowelled wall posts, arch-braced to wall plate; roof trusses masked, but purlins and windbraces exposed (B1).
The farmhouse was substantially rebuilt in the 1990s. In 2024 the building was converted to two dwellings, the C17 house was renamed Fullers Cottage and a large 1994 extension renamed Brick Kiln Farm. (See report for detail)(B2).