Listed Building: HOME FARMHOUSE (286489)

HOO (Off) CHIMER'S LANE TM 25 NW (East end) 4/75 Home Farmhouse 16/3/66 - II Farmhouse. C16. Timber framed with colourwashed render and a slate roof, originally thatched. Baffle-entry 3-cell plan. Two storeys and attic. Entrance front: C19 or C20 gabled porch doorway at right with a C20 six- panel door in line with the screens passage. To right of this is a 2-light C19 casement and to left of it are a 4-light and a 3-light casement. To the first floor are two 3-light casements and a 2-light and a single-light window combined within one frame and divided by a king mullion. To the ridge at left of centre is a stack of 2 flues which has been partially rebuilt in the C19. The right hand gable end: a further stack with a ground floor window to its right and an outshut of C20 brick at right again. Left hand gable end: early/mid-C19 bow window at ground floor level with 2-light windows to centre, left and right. Single-light attic window above. Rear: C20 outshut to the whole of the ground floor and random fenestration to the first floor. Interior: Kitchen: remnants of a screens passage, the panelled screen still intact with mortice holes to an axial and a cross-axial beam indicating the position of the walls of the service rooms. Hall: massive ceiling beam supported on jowled wall posts with chamfered edges and die- out end stops and one blocked window with diamond-section mullions. Massive hearth. Winder staircase rising from the lobby entry, formerly at the rear of the house. Similar beams to the further ground floor room. Close studding, reversed arched braces and jowled wall posts to the first floor with heavily cambered tie beams. One portion of the hall now divided off to form a passageway. Wall plate and an arched brace showing to first floor with close-studding to the dividing walls. Listing NGR: TM2457357693