Description from record TQ 94 NW 14:
The Calehill House which John Darrel rebuilt temp. Henry IV was demolished in the 18th c. by Phillip Darrel and rebuilt on a slightly different site. Parts of its stone walls together with a fine decorated window from the private chapel remain in a corner of the garden. (1) Noted as 15th c. remains of Calehill House(2). Listed as a manor.(3) TQ. 94154704: In the corner of the garden S.E. of the present Calehill House (a recently converted 17th c. brick stable-block centred TQ 94164714) are the remains of the earlier Calehill Manor House comprising a small rectangular ragstone turret, some ragstone walling, and the end wall of a building containing a double-trefoil- headed light of 14/15th c. date and a small rectangular light. There is insufficient evidence remaining in the building to support Igglesden's suggestion that it was the chapel. All trace of internal divisions &c., has has been destroyed or obscured by gardening & a tennis court, and more recently the building of a stable. The 18th c. Calehill House formerly situated at TQ 94314694 was almost completely demolished c.1953.(4) GPS AO/61/175/7 AO/61/175/8 Turret no longer extant. (5). 5272 LITTLE CHART CALEHILL PARK Ruins of the original Calehill House TQ 94 NW 10/130 14.2.67. II 2. There have been at least 3 houses known as Calehill here. The estate belonged to the Darell family from 1410 until the C20. To the south-east of the building now known as Calehill House are the ruins of the original house, built by Sir John Darell who died in 1438. These are of stone rubble and include a C15 window of 2 cinquefoil- headed lights. In the C18 another house was built by Philip Darell to the south-east (subsequently demolished), and the older building fell into ruins. 5272 LITTLE CHART CALEHILL PARK Calehill House TQ 94 NW 10/141 14.2.67. II*

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 LITTLE CHART CALEHILL PARK Calehill House TQ 94 NW 10/141 14.2.67. II* 2. This building was originally the stables to the earliest Calehill House, though erected at a later date. About 1930 it was converted into a picture gallery and ballroom. Since the demolition of the C18 Calehill House, it has been called Calehill House. Early C17. One storey and attics red brick. Half-hipped tiled roof with 2 half-hipped gables containing attic windows and one modern dormer between them. Brick modillion cornice like machicolation. Ornamental lead guttering with 3 rainwater pipes running down from this. Seven casement windows of 2 tiers of 2 lights in stone surrounds, with brick dripstones over and stone mullions and transoms. Stone doorway with depressed head, over which is a stone panel of strapwork flanked by scrolls with a pediment above. The north wall has no windows but the brick modillion cornice like machicolation and the lead guttering are continued along it. Listing NGR: TQ9416447142 (12)

<1> 'A Saunter thro' Kent' 4 (1902) pp.55-6 (C Igglesdon) (OS Card Reference). SKE32839.

<2> M.H.L.G (W Ashford R.D.) 1887/11/A, Oct 1960 p.49 (OS Card Reference). SKE46230.

<3> History of Kent, 7, (1798) p.458 (E Hasted) (OS Card Reference). SKE44143.

<4> F1 CFW 09-JAN-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42494.

<5> OS 1:25" 1975 (OS Card Reference). SKE48194.

<6> DOE (HHR) Boro of Ashford Kent Oct 1980 157 (OS Card Reference). SKE39818.

<7> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 383 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37882.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 94 NW 14 - January, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4763.

<9> Nicola Bannister, 1993, Archaeological Evaluation of Calehill House Garden Little Chart Kent (Unpublished document). SKE7438.

<11> GBS Prospection, 2000, Geophysical Survey Report 200/88 at Calehill House, Little Chart, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE12157.

<12> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.