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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 NW 104
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Ivy House Farmhouse, Chapel Street, East Malling

Summary

c1500 building. The hall and lower end of an end jetty house remains. Alterations in the mid C16 Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999


Grid Reference:TQ 5701e 1567e
Map Sheet:TQ51NE
Parish:EAST MALLING AND LARKFIELD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1070530: IVY HOUSE FARMHOUSE

Full description

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c1500 building. The hall and lower end of an end jetty house remains. Alterations in the mid C16

Description from record TQ 75 NW 246:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST MALLING & LARKFIELD CHAPEL STREET TQ 7056 (west side) 15/136 Ivy House Farmhouse 1.8.52 GV II
Farmhouse enclosing possible former hall-house. Early C15 with C16 addition. Exposed timber-framing with painted brick infilling on ground-floor and close studding on 1st floor. Return gabled wing to left with first-floor jetty sup- ported on moulded bressumer and corner brackets. Hipped plain tiled roof with gabled return wing with original moulded barge-boards left and C20 catslide extension to extreme right in front of C19 plastered brick wing at right angles to main block. Large stack central to main block off-ridge to rear. 2 storeys; 2 window irregular front to main block, C18 and C19 glazing bar sashes. 1 win- dow front to return wing, casements. Boarded door with pentice hood to right of main block. INTERIOR: Much restored. One ground-floor room has very fine moulded ceiling joists.
Listing NGR: TQ7007256707 (1)

hall and lower end of an end jetty house with a formerly open 1-bay hall. In the mid 16th century the upper end was replaced by the existing parlour wing (2)

Historic England archive material (3)


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

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<3> Historic England, Archive material associated with Ivy House Farmhouse, East Malling, Listed Building (Archive). SKE55579.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
<3>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Ivy House Farmhouse, East Malling, Listed Building.