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Description from record TQ 74 NE 107:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST CLAPPER LANE TQ 74 NE (North-west side)
2/76 Clapper Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, built in at least 2 stages. Timber framed. Right section rendered, left section weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Gable end jetty to left section. Roof of short left section hipped to left, with much lower ridge than right section. Roof of right section steeply pitched, gabled to left, hipped with gablet to right. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof towards left end of right section. Small gabled dormer to right section. Irregular fenestration of 5 small wooden casements; one 3-light to left section, one 2-light under stack, one 4-light and two 3-light. Half-glazed door between second and third windows from right. Low single-storey weatherboarded addition with plain-tile roof, to right gable end. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7810445361 (1)

Formerly an open 2-bay hall and lower end of a medieval house. The upper end was replaced in the 16th century. In the 19th century a kitchen was built behind the upper end. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040414 CLAPPER FARMHOUSE, STAPLEHURST 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. RCH01/048/01/662 Labelled sheet of drawings of Clapper Farmhouse, Staplehurst, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, a crown-post elevation, and a main post profile

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.