WEST MALLING TQ6857 HIGH STREET 1156-0/3/44 Nos.54A,56 AND 58 01/08/52 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Premises occupied by Viner and Pinch) GV II 2 shops with living accommodation above. Pre-1500 timber-framed building with c1840 refronting. Front elevation weatherboarded with tiled roof. 2 storeys 4 windows 2 parallel ranges. Moulded eaves cornice. 4 widely spaced sashes with marginal glazing and panels below. Unusual shopfront with 6 pilastered Corinthian columns and 2 shopfronts with 2 round-headed arches with Prince of Wales feathers decorations. Side elevation tile-hung. Rear elevation has projecting gable with collar beams and through purlins. Internally the 1st floor shows a 4-bay timber-framed range fronting the High Street and 1 large bay separately framed behind. Internal mullioned windows and internal daub wall. 4 plain square crown posts with 2 head braces to collar beam and dragon ties. Sans-purlin roof with collar beam. 1 upright post has a chamfer and lamb's tongue step very similar to No 65 High Street. Deep jowls to upright posts. 1 collar beam has chamfer and run out stop. It is possible that this building was the original Cart or Market hall and more possible that the large framed bay to the rear was the earlier building. (Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: 579; Cozier P: Survey of buildings in West Malling: ITEM 13). Listing NGR: TQ6802057822