Description from record TQ 67 SW 80:
(TQ 61687079) Dean & Chapters Cottages (NAT) (1) 5274 SOUTHFLEET RED STREET (north side) Chapter Farmhouse (formerly listed as Nos 1 and 2 Dean and Chapter Cottages) TQ 6170 12/46 1.6.67 II* GV 2. C15 wealden hall house recently restored and the hall opened up again. Two storeys, timber framed with plaster infill. The first floor of the end window bays oversails on brackets. Exposed curved braces. The eaves between have their timber-framing exposed and a cove and oversail on curved braces. Two casement windows and restored full height hall window with diamond shaped mullions. Hipped tiled roof with smoke louvres. C16 outside chimneystack to east elevation. C16 doorcase with spandrels. The interior contains the original service screen, crown post roof, an embattled beam to the solar end and a C16 stone fireplace to the hall which was ceiled over with chamfered beams in the C16. A good example of a Wealden House. (2) Additional bibliography. (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5274 SOUTHFLEET RED STREET (north side)
Chapter Farmhouse (formerly listed as Nos 1 and 2 Dean and Chapter Cottages) TQ 6170 12/46 1.6.67
II* GV
2. C15 wealden hall house recently restored and the hall opened up again. Two storeys, timber framed with plaster infill. The first floor of the end window bays oversails on brackets. Exposed curved braces. The eaves between have their timber-framing exposed and a cove and oversail on curved braces. Two casement windows and restored full height hall window with diamond shaped mullions. Hipped tiled roof with smoke louvres. C16 outside chimneystack to east elevation. C16 doorcase with spandrels. The interior contains the original service screen, crown post roof, an embattled beam to the solar end and a C16 stone fireplace to the hall which was ceiled over with chamfered beams in the C16. A good example of a Wealden House. Listing NGR: TQ6169470810(4)

Heavily restored Wealden house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. (5)

Historic England archive material: BF040398 CHAPTER FARMHOUSE, SOUTHFLEET 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. RCH01/048/01/633 Labelled sheet of drawings of Chapter Farmhouse, Southfleet, with a ground-floor plan, a dais beam profile, and a perspective sketch of a crown-post bas

<1> OS 1:2500 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48203.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Dartford Kent Mar. 1982 17 (OS Card Reference). SKE41312.

<3> BOE West Kent and the Weald 1980 541 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38278.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<5> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.