HAWKHURST SLIP MILL LANE TQ 7430-7530 (west side) 16/429 Chittenden GV II House. C15 and altered and extended C18 and c.1880 by George Devey, architect. Timber framed and part exposed close studding with plaster infill, and part clad and extended with red brick, tile hanging and applied framing. Plain tiled roofs. Hall house, probably Wealden plan in origin. Two storeys and attic with moulded bressummer to first floor and pargetted plaster frieze to roof with 2 hipped dormers and central projecting gabled semi-dormer and with moulded stacks to centre right and projecting and offset at end left. Two 3-light and one 2-light wooden casements on coved cills on first floor, with 3 casements in attic storey of semi-dormer and 3 glazing bar sashes on first floor. Three-light oriel, 2-light wooden casement in recessed, close studded portion and 4-light mullioned and transomed casement on ground floor with blocked opening to right. Entry by rib and stud door in recessed, moulded four centred arched doorway in left return. Extensive rear wings, in part C18 with red and blue brick on sandstone base, part late C19. Right return close studded and exposed, with jetty on brackets and sandstone plinth. Boarded door in porch with gabled bargeboard, probably C17 and resited on this elevation. Interior: large cambered arch-braced tie beams, with base of removed crown post, and with brace to carry projecting eaves now within the building. Ground floor with double ogee-moulded beams, and cambered dais beam with coved moulding and dragon beam in end left room. Much late C19 timbering. Devey built extensions to Marlborough House nearby at the same time. (See BOE. Kent, I, 1980, 317). Listing NGR: TQ7531430766