[TQ 6555 5351 - Forge Farm centred - possible site of Forge Gate Farmhouse] Forge Gate Farmhouse, Grade II*, Maidstone Road (north side). Wealdenhall house. 16th century. (For full description see list.) (1)

Description from record TQ 65 SE 204:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 SE EAST PECKHAM MAIDSTONE ROAD (north side)
2/46 Forge Gate Farmhouse
GV II*
Wealden hall house. C16 Red brick under-built ground floor, tile-hung 1st floor. Some ragstone walling visible on west side of house. Plain tiled roof returned gable to left, hipped to right with ridge stack. 2 storeys, irregular 3-window facade, C19 lattice casements. Boarded door left of centre. Later wing to rear. Interior: C16 fireplace with chamfered bressummer and salthole. Possible C16 panelling with arched doorway, perhaps remaining from Buttery/ Pantry. Crown post and 2 king-posts in roof. Listing NGR: TQ6559352510 (2)

Historic England Archive material: RCH01/048/01/265 Labelled sheet of drawings of Forge Gate Farmhouse, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, and a crown-post elevation BF040305 FORGE GATE FARMHOUSE, EAST PECKHAM File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Formerly open 2-bay hall and upper-end cross wing of later medieval date. The lower end was rebuilt in the 18th century and the former front jetty cut back.(3)

<1> DOE(HHR) Dist of Tonbridge and Malling Kent April 1985 21 (OS Card Reference). SKE41094.

<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.