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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 NW 1184
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:ALLENS HILL FARMHOUSE or Alleyn's Hill Farm, Cliffe

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1899

A loose courtyard plan farmstead with buildings to two sides of the yard.

Grid Reference:TQ 7308 7653
Map Sheet:TQ77NW
Parish:CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • HALL HOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1400 AD to 1800 AD)
  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1467 AD to 1899 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1336468: ALLENS HILL FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CLIFFE-AT-HOO CP BUCKLAND ROAD TQ 77 NW 1/16 West side Allens Hill Farmhouse
GV II
Hall house, now farmhouse. Late C15, clad in C18 and C19. Timberframed and clad in brick and weatherboarding. Steep plain tiled hipped roof with gablets and tall brick ridge stack to left. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of casements. Entrance in gabled two-storey shallow projection to right. Catslide outshut to left. Interior: Evidence of screens passage on ground- floor with one 4-centred service door and remains of screen. 2 dragon beams in south (high) end. C16 fireplace with carved cambered wooden bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ7308576530

Formerly TQ 77 NW 82

Description from record MKE83265:
Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on two sides
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached in central position
Position: Loose farmstead cluster
Survivial: Only the farmhouse remains
(1-2)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe Parish. The report states:
"A third locus of medieval settlement was Allen's Hill, first recorded in 1327 in relation to John Aleyn. It is claimed that the Magna Carta was drafted in Cliffe in 1215 before the completed document was taken to Runnymede…
Alleyn's Hill Farm has a farmhouse of 17th century or earlier build, incorporating a 15th century hall and service end". (3)


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

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE18076.

<3> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31591.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<1>Unpublished document: Forum Heritage Services. 2012. Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project.
<2>Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009. Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping.
<3>Bibliographic reference: historic england. 2014. Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54.