Listed Building record TQ 76 SW 393 - THE MANOR HOUSE

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HALLING CP HIGH sTRihl2 TQ 76 SW 13/55 West side 24.1.85 Nos 122 and 124 (The Manor House) GV II
Wealden hall-house. C15 with early C19 and early to mid C19 exterior. Brick walls, north wing of red brick and south wing also with blue headers. Hipped tiled roofs; brick stacks. Front elevation of north wing with window to lefthand below and to righthand above, both with rubbed brick heads and the latter above recessed doorway with cast-iron fanlight and door of six moulded and fielded panels. South wing with lower eaves line; lefthand bay with dormer with sloping roof and window below and righthand bay with window above and below. Further doorway in south return elevation. Interior: 3 bays of original Wealden hall remain, namely upper hall bay, most of low bay and front parlour, the latter with plain, heavy joists and one bracket; halved and bridled scarf on rear wall plate; part of upper section of hall window visible; one end of hall partion complete; moulded dais beam. Most of smoke-blackened hall roof complete, including moulded octagonal crown-post with capital and base on ogee and hollow- moulded tie-beam. Probably early C17 inserted floor in low bay of open hall. Thought to be the main house of the Bishop of Rochester's Manor of Halling.
Listing NGR: TQ7045863959 (1)

Mainly a 17th and 19th century building containing part of a formerly open 2-bay hall and parlour end of a Wealden house. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040393 122-124 HIGH STREET, HALLING 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. RCH01/048/01/399 Labelled sheet of drawings of 122-124 High Street, Lower Halling, with a ground-floor plan and tie-beam and dais beam profiles

<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.