Boyke Manor

Heritage listing

Details TR 14 SE ELHAM CANTERBURY ROAD (west side) Ottinge 4/51 Boyke Manor 29.12.66 GV II* Farmhouse, now house. C15 or early C16, with C17 and later alterations. Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Painted brick infilling to ground floor of hall and right end. Red brick to ground floor of left addition, and, with plat band, to whole of left gable end. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of two timber-framed bays, and storeyed end bays. Fifth bay added to left in C17 or later. 2 storeys, on flint and stone plinth. Broadly-spaced studding. Pair of ogee tension braces to first floor of storeyed left bay, single tension brace to right hall bay, and pair to each floor of storeyed right bay. Ground floor of storeyed left bay close-studded. Broadly-spaced studding and central full-height post to right gable end. Long rail of large scantling, probably cill of former hall window, towards base of left hall bay. Storeyed end bays jettied to front. Solid-spandrel bracket under left bay has engaged shaft under it with moulded head and worn base. Traces of similar shafts to left and central brackets of right jetty. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Left hall bay has short moulded and brattished rail (transom of former hall window?) towards centre, above jetty level but at level of inserted hall floor. To right of centre of bay, a short (C17?) stub beam is unusually cantilevered out to support a jowled post which clasps the flying wall- plate. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Brick stack in left hip (in added left bay). Red and grey brick in front slope of roof to left end of shorter right hall bay. Gable-end stack to right. Small eaves dormer with hipped plain-tile roof and three leaded lights to left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows; one two-light leaded casement to

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.