Listed Building: THE WEALDEN HALL RESTAURANT (1070501)

EAST MALLING & LARKFIELD LONDON ROAD TQ 75 NW (south side) 8/163 The Wealden Hall - Restaurant - II* Farmhouse, now restaurant. Late C14 to right with mid C17 block to left. MAIN BLOCK. Exposed timber-framing with curved braces and brick infilling. 1st floors of service and solar ends jettied forward on brackets and joists. Dragon post to right. Central recess with eaves carried on 2 curved braces. Plain tiled hipped roof with gablets, 1 gabled dormer to left, central stack off-ridge to front and end stack to right. 2 storeys; irregular 2 window front, all win- dows being in central recess except on ground floor with one window on left hand side of ground floor under right hand jetty. All windows glazing bar sashes, except non-opening window with glazing bars on ground floor to right. Arched doorway to right of recess with C20 boarded and ribbed door and 2 storey bay window to left. EXTENSION. Timber-framed, exposed on 1st floor, with red brick dressings. Coursed rubble stone ground floor with red brick dressings. Plain tiled roof with central ridge stack. 2 storeys and cellars; irregular 2 window front, glazing bar sashes except casement on 1st floor to left. One segment- headed collar light to right. C20 boarded and ribbed door with pentice hood, off-centre to left. REAR OF MAIN BLOCK. Gabled stair-tower to rear. INTERIOR. Hall, floored over, with collar-purlin roof and crown-post. Longitudinal crown- post roof over 1st floor of service-end, which may be remains of upper floor hall, from which the house was later extrapolated. Listing NGR: TQ7035158303