Description

EAST MALLING & LARKFIELD LONDON ROAD TQ 75 NW (south side) 8/163 The Wealden Hall - Restaurant

- II*

Farmhouse, now restaurant. Late C14 to right with mid C17 block to left. MAIN BLOCK. Exposed timber-framing with curved braces and brick infilling. 1st floors of service and solar ends jettied forward on brackets and joists. Dragon post to right. Central recess with eaves carried on 2 curved braces. Plain tiled hipped roof with gablets, 1 gabled dormer to left, central stack off-ridge to front and end stack to right. 2 storeys; irregular 2 window front, all win- dows being in central recess except on ground floor with one window on left hand side of ground floor under right hand jetty. All windows glazing bar sashes, except non-opening window with glazing bars on ground floor to right. Arched doorway to right of recess with C20 boarded and ribbed door and 2 storey bay window to left. EXTENSION. Timber-framed, exposed on 1st floor, with red brick dressings. Coursed rubble stone ground floor with red brick dressings. Plain tiled roof with central ridge stack. 2 storeys and cellars; irregular 2 window front, glazing bar sashes except casement on 1st floor to left. One segment- headed collar light to right. C20 boarded and ribbed door with pentice hood, off-centre to left. REAR OF MAIN BLOCK. Gabled stair-tower to rear. INTERIOR. Hall, floored over, with collar-purlin roof and crown-post. Longitudinal crown- post roof over 1st floor of service-end, which may be remains of upper floor hall, from which the house was later extrapolated.

Listing NGR: TQ7035158303

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)