Description

TQ 55 NE WROTHAM C.P. KEMSING ROAD
4/1 (south side)
1.8.52
Yaldham Manor

II

Manor house. C14 open hall with C17 and C19 alterations. South front. Random
rubble stone plinth. Red and blue brick with some galletted random rubble stone.
Some stone dressing and cement window surrounds. Plain tiled roof with brick stacks
off-centre to right. Half-hipped return gable to right, return gable to left with
end projecting chimney-breast topped by paired decorated stacks and decorative
tile-hanging on gable. 2 storeys in gable ends, tall 1-storey hall in centre.
Large 6-flight transom and mullion with lattice casements, lighting hall in centre.
1 arched window to right, door to left arched with drip-mould. 3 windows on
1st floor under gable to left, 2 windows on ground-floor, on this floor under
drip-moulds. 3 tall closely-spaced windows on 1st floor under right-hand gable,
french casements on ground-floor. L-shaped wing to left of main block with
half-hipped return gable and moulded barge-boards to left. Red brick on random
rubble-stone plinth with corbelled brick eaves. Plain tiled roof with double stack
to right behind ridge, 3 stacks to centre left and 1 dormer to right with sloping
flat roof. 2 storeys and attics; irregular fenestration with 1 attic window in
gable, 3 windows on 1st floor and 2 on ground-floor, on this floor with
segment-heads. All casement windows. Separated from main block by high garden-wall
to south. North side. Random stone plinth, red and some blue brick. Centre C17,
projecting wings C19, that to left deeper. Plain tiled roof with 4 small tile-hung
gables over centre. 2 storeys and attic; almost regular central block of 4 windows,
with 1 window wings. Lattice casements, in central recess in segment-head surrounds
with raised heads. Cement-band over ground-floor in centre and bull's eye window
over centre. Arched entrance with brick drip-mould over and double boarded doors.
Gabled, tile-hung porch on wooden supports with lattice glazed sides. Interior:
Open hall with moulded arch-braced principals, are on mask supporting bracket.
Remains visible of stencil decoration of roof timbers, as well as evidence of smoke
blackening. 'Bollen' signature inscribed on pane in south window, reputed to be
that of Anne Boleyn. The house was originally built by the De Aldham family, and
their heirs through the female line, the Peckhams, who held the Manors of East and
WestAldham, between 1192 and 1713. Relegated to status of farmhouse at latter
date, it was restored and added to at the end of the C19.

Listing NGR: TQ5869658758

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529684

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