The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 CHARTHAM THE GREEN
Bedford House TR 1055 29/233 29.9.52.
II GV
2. C16 or earlier timber-framed building with plaster infilling, part of the ground floor rebuilt in painted brick, the first floor oversailing on a bressumer and brackets with curved braces. Two gables oversailing on brackets. Hipped tiled roof with C17 brick chimneystack. Four casement windows facing south-east and two windows facing north-east, traces of the original mullioned windows remain. Four-centred wooden doorways. Moulded dragon post. This was at one time an Inn and later the local poor-house.
Listing NGR: TR1054855133 (1)

Wealden house with a formerly open 2-bay hall with an upper-end jettied at end as well as the front. There are post medieval alterations. (2)

Additional reference (3)

Historic Enlgand archive material (4)

Historic England, Archive material associated with the Bedford House, Chartham Hatch, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57155.

<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.

<3> Kent Workhouses
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© 2017 Kent Workhouses, 2018, Kent Workhouses & Poorhouses (Website). SKE51755.