The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 WALTRAM ANVIL GREEN
Anvil Green Farmhouse TR 14 NW 16/649
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2. Originally called Handville Green as it was the residence of the Handville family. Probably C17. Two parallel ranges. Two storeys red brick. Steeply pitched hipped tiled roof. Two casement windows. Gabled weather porch.
Listing NGR: TR1072449455 (1)

A Historic Building Appraisal was carried out regarding the farmhouse and associated barn in 2015. The farmhouse was dated to the 17th century and is thought to have been constructed from the frame of a medieval open hall house which may have been the original farmhouse.

The roof is a simple collar rafter type, elements of which have been trimmed and altered in order to adjust them to the form of the present building. Many of the original rafter couples and associated collars have been kept together - suggesting some area of the roof have undergone little alteration since the medieval period. The east and west sides of the roof are hipped and attic rooms are located within the roof space.

Reused medieval joists and a medieval dies beam are located in the floor above the east living room, the east ground floor room, and some reused medieval timbers and a tie beam are situated in the attic floor. The floor above the west living room is constructed from post-medieval (probably 17th century) timbers, as are elements of the attic floor. The reused nature of the medieval timbers is evidenced through the presence of soot-blackened beams with clean pegs, and the abundance of now disused mortices on the timbers.

Evidence for a jetty plate identified in the east ground floor room indicates that the medieval house was originally jettied. Other surviving elements of the medieval timbers suggest that the roof was a crown-post type. Medieval jowled posts, curved braces, and a crown-post mortice beam have also been identified as forming part of the current building.

The form and arrangement of the structure have not undergone any significant changes since its construction. The outside walls of the building have been rebuilt in brick between the late 17th - the late 18th century. Furthermore, a number of other alterations tookplace in the 18th century, including the construction of a second chimney to the east, and a cellar.A fire in the 19th century resulted in the charring of a number of timbers acoss the house.
An early 16th century timber framed barn is located around 14m to the south of the house. This structure is aligned on an E-W orientation and may originally have function as a workshop or service building associated with the house.

A single storey 19th century outbuilding forms a group with the house. This structure is built in flint and is thought to have originally had an agricultural function. (2)

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

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd., 2015, Anvil Green Farmhouse, Anvil Green, Kent: Historic Building Appraisal (Unpublished document). SKE56490.