Gardeners (EHER 34964)

A 17th/18th century timber framed and weatherboarded cottage with a red plain tiled roof. It is one storey and attics.

July 1983. Grade II listed. A 17th/18th century timber framed and weatherboarded cottage with a red plain tiled roof. It is one storey and attics. <1> See photos <2>. 1991. Heritage assessment. A structural survey was carried out of this building which lies to the south-east of Canewdon village, in a remote area abutting the farms of Scotts Hall and West Hall. The building is timber-framed and weatherboarded, and consists of a ground floor and first floor level. In general, the building is late 17th-century and then comprised two or possibly three cottages. There is strong evidence to suggest that this may have been a single hall house originally, in the form of many reused timbers, i.e. window sill with sockets for diamond mullions (used as a stud). Studs with sockets and grooves for wattle and daub, a ground-sill scarf in situ all suggests an earlier date around 1500. The central chimney stack has a crease mark in it, suggesting that the roof apex was much lower at one time and the first floor was inserted. The current roof structure is quite acceptable for the second half of the 17th century. In 1818 Gardners became a charity and evidence of this can be seen in Canewdon church. The farm appears as Gardners on Chapman and Andre map. But as yet the origin of the name Gardners is not clear. It is possible that this at one time formed part of the Lambourne Hall estate. <3>