Description from record TQ 85 SE 56 :
(TQ 89695204) No 56 High Street [NAT] (1) No 56 (Honeywood) (formerly listed as High House) Grade II. 1621. (2-3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LENHAM HIGH STREET TQ 8952 (north side)
10/180 No. 56 (Honeywood) (formerly listed 20.10.52. as High House) GV II*
House. 1621 for Anthony Honeywood. Timber framed with plaster infilling and plain tile roof. Part of ground floor of side elevations refaced in brick. Compactly symmetrical lobby entry house of 3 bays, including acentral stack bay. 2 storeys and attics, on plinth. Close-studded, with rendered attic gable to each outer bay of front elevation and to each side elevation. First floor and all attic gables jettied, with moulded bressumers. Gables have carved bargeboards with pendants. Central brick ridge stack with moulded plinth and 6 octagonal flues. Ovolo- moulded mullion windows throughout; one small 2-light window towards top of each attic gable, one 3-light window to central bay on first floor, one rectangular mullioned and transomed oriel of 10 lights to left bay, and one of 8 lights to right bay, with a 2-light frieze window on either side of each oriel. Ground- floor oriels follow the same pattern. All jetties and 1st floor oriels have carved brackets, some with grotesques. Central ribbed door. Small brick panels under ground-floor oriels inscribed "AH" and "1621". Interior: moulded architraves to doors, with finely- carved chamfer-stops. Side purlin roof with collars. Exposed timbers. Originally residence of Governor of the Honeywood Charity, founded by Anthony Honeywood in 1621. Almshouses lie to east, (not listed). ( J. Newman: West Kent and the Weald, 1980 Edition) Listing NGR: TQ8969252049 (4)

<1> OS 1:2500 1968 (OS Card Reference). SKE48210.

<2> DOE (HHR) Boro of Maidstone Kent 14 Dec 1984 88 (OS Card Reference). SKE39875.

<3> Bldgs of Eng-West Kent & the Weald 1980 378 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38153.

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