The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 SE CHILHAM MOUNTAIN STREET (south end)
4/20 Hurst Farmhouse
27.11.57 I
Hall House. C14 hall with C15 cross wing. Timber framed, close studded to cross-wing, with painted plaster and brick infill, flint plinth, and plain tile roof. C14 range: 2 storey with attic. Large irregular frame, gabled roof with 1 C20 roof light, large ridge stack centre right, and stack to rear right, behind C19 1 window extension. 2 C20 wood casements, 1 either side of C19 4 panelled door to centre right. C15 cross-wing: 2 storeys on basement. First floor jetty on all 3 sides, with moulded dragon posts. Hipped roof with gablet and projecting offset stack to left. 1 wooden casement to each floor, and single light to basement. Entrance: Large C14 or C13 rubble porch in re-entrant angle. Buttressed and repaired in brick, double chamfered arch, mutilated chamfered jambs with possible stiff- leaf capitals. C15 arched plank door. Interior: 2 bay semi-aisled hall of C14 with base-crucks. Arched bracing to screens and dais-end tie beams. Doubled bracing to trusses and scissor trusses. Secondary roof system of C15 date of crown- post collar-purlin roof with moulded cap and base to octagonal crown post. Collar-purlin roof over solar end. Inserted floor over hall, inscribed 1704 on one joist. Large mounted stack, bread ovens and 2 C19 coppers.
Listing NGR: TR0665951824
Formerly TR 05 SE 29 (1-2)

A timber framed house with a formerly open 3-bay hall with an elaborate roof construction. The existing lower end is mid 16th century and comprises a 2-bay cross wing of 2-storeys with a cellar. This wing was jettied at the front, rear and side. In the late 16th or early 17th century a timber stack was inserted to heat the upper hall which was floored over and partitioned off from the rest. The remaining 2-bay hall thus created may not have been floored over until 1714.(3)


Historic England archive material(4)k.

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

<2> B O E North East and East Kent 1983, 407 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37430.

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

<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with Hurst Farm, Chilham Listed Building (Archive). SKE55630.