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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 55 NE 78
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:YALDHAM MANOR

Summary

Yaldham Manor. Manor house. C14 open hall with C17 and C19 alterations.


Grid Reference:TQ 5869 5875
Map Sheet:TQ55NE
Parish:WROTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1236457: YALDHAM MANOR

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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
(1)

The building was survey in 2008 and the phases of development recorded. The earliest fabric of the hall probably dates from the early 15th century but an earlier structure could have existed on the site since the late 13th century. The roof has been dated to 1412 by dendrochronology. The building was added to and modified in the 16th and 17th century but became a farmhouse in the early 18th century. In 1837 the Reverend Edmund Boscawen Evelyn inherited the manor and renovated the building. He also rebuilt the farm buildings and redesigned the garden between 1868 and 1886. (2)

Once a very substantial medieval house. Only a 14th century stone hall and an originally timber framed range of uncertain function now remains. Services were rebuilt circa 1600 and much altered in the 19th century. The upper end was rebuilt in the 19th century. (3)


Historic England, Archive material associated with Yaldham Manor, Wrotham, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57077.

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> The Paul Drury Partnership, 2008, Yaldham Manor, Wrotham, Kent. Report on the development and significance of the Manor House and Farm Buildings (Unpublished document). SKE17905.

<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Yaldham Manor, Wrotham, Listed Building.
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Unpublished document: The Paul Drury Partnership. 2008. Yaldham Manor, Wrotham, Kent. Report on the development and significance of the Manor House and Farm Buildings.
<3>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.