Listed Building: LITTLE LONDON FARMHOUSE (1259706)

GILLINGHAM TQ86NW LOWER TWYDALL LANE, Twydall 686-1/8/122 (North West side) 21/12/73 Little London Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: TWYDALL LANE, Twydall (North West side) Little London Farmhouse) II House. Late C15-early C16, altered C17, C19 rear range. Timber-frame on a flint plinth, partly brick, render and weatherboard, brick left-hand external gable and rear lateral stacks, with a tiled roof. PLAN: 3-room parallel plan with a right-hand lean-to and a C19 rear service range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Flint plinth, rendered ground floor and close-studded first floor with end tension braces and 2 cills to small blocked late C16 clerestory windows under the eaves; C17 English bond left-hand gable and right-hand weatherboard gable. A C20 bracketed timber canopy with a hipped roof to the right of the left-hand window and boarded door; left-hand 8/8-pane sash in exposed frame, central and right-hand C20 casements, first-floor C19 casements and central 3/6-pane sash. Right-hand lean-to has raking roof and C19 timber-framed half gable. Lower rear wing encloses a lateral stack, with a gabled stair tower in the left-hand angle, and a late C20 conservatory linked to a rear C19 brick and tile service extension. INTERIOR: not inspected. A retaining wall in the cellar contains the capital of a column (the shaft of which is within the garden) which may have come from the chantry chapel built by John Beafits from Twydall Manor House in 1433 and demolished in 1756. (The History and Topography Survey of the County of Kent: Hastead E: 2nd ed.: vol 4: 1972-: 235, 236). Listing NGR: TQ8026967845