The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SUTTON VALENCE GREEN LANE TQ 85 SW (east side) The Old 2/129 Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. C18, with later alterations. Chequered red and grey brick to front elevation and left side with plain red brick (possibly rebuilt) under eaves. Right side red brick in English bond. Plain tile roof. Lobby entry plan of 3 bays; 2 broad, and one narrow to right end. 2 storeys on galletted stone plinth with plain brick eaves band. Hipped roof. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; two 3-light and one 2-light to right end, all with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Panelled door with 2 top lights and flat bracketted hood beneath stack. Rear lean-to, broadened later. 2-storey rear wing added to left. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TQ8079147870 (1)

This feature is mentioned in the AB Heritage Heritage Appraisal on land at Green Lane, Langley. The report states: "The Grade II listed The Old Farmhouse along with an adjacent garage and other dilapidated outbuildings are present within a rectangular plot adjacent to the south-west corner of the proposed development site. An area of scrub is located beyond the farmhouse towards the south east…A scheme of vegetation planting is already in place including an area along the south-west bounday, adjacent to The Old Farmhouse... The Grade II listed The Old Farmhouse is set back from Green Lane and faces onto the road, immediately adjacent to the south-west corner of the proposed development site. In relation to the immediate setting, the farmhoue can be appreciated within a yard enclosed by a wall (photo provided). An open fronted garage is located on the northern side of the yard with an additional detached garage located c. 10m to the south. A number of dilapidated outbuildings are present on the north-east side of the farmhouse…The Old Farmhouse in enclosed on the southern side by a garden. The remainder of the western and northern sides of the complex are enclosed by dense trees. Additional dense trees are located within an area of scrub, enclosing the farmhouse to the south-east. In relation to the wider setting, the farmhouse can be appreciated within a mostly rural patchwork of regular shaped fields, likely representing former farmland associated with the farmstead at Green Lane Farm. Additionally the separated nature of The Old Farmhouse from the dense residential development to the north and east is considered by the Maidstone Borough Council Principal Conservation Officer to be an important component of the setting of this heritage feature…The original wider farmland setting of The Old Farmhouse has been compromised to a degree as some of the associated fields to the north have been removed by modern residential development. A small scale, mostly 19th century rural residential development is present to the north west of The Old Farmhouse that include Ye Old Cottage…The significance of The Old Farmhouse can be considered to be mostly evidential, historical and aesthetic with the Historic England listing description highlighting key original architectural details of the building and its development.
However, the relationship of The Old Farmhouse with the associated surrouding fields as well as the rural residential nature of the wider setting are considered, the former by Maidstone Borough council (2014) to make a positive contribution towards the significance of the historical function of the farmhouse to a degree…Interdivisibiity with The Old Farmhouse is very limited, with only the roof the farmhouse visible from the north west part of the development site. The residential element of the development might be considered to detach The Old Farmhouse from a small part of its original farmland wider setting and encroach to a degree upon the isolated, rural character of the setting." (2)

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

<2> AB Heritage, 2015, Land at Green Lane, Langley, Kent, Heritage Appraisal (Unpublished document). SKE31578.