Formerly TQ 77 NW 82

Description from record MKE83265:
Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on two sides
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached in central position
Position: Loose farmstead cluster
Survivial: Only the farmhouse remains
(1-2)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe Parish. The report states:
"A third locus of medieval settlement was Allen's Hill, first recorded in 1327 in relation to John Aleyn. It is claimed that the Magna Carta was drafted in Cliffe in 1215 before the completed document was taken to Runnymede…
Alleyn's Hill Farm has a farmhouse of 17th century or earlier build, incorporating a 15th century hall and service end". (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CLIFFE-AT-HOO CP BUCKLAND ROAD TQ 77 NW 1/16 West side Allens Hill Farmhouse
GV II
Hall house, now farmhouse. Late C15, clad in C18 and C19. Timberframed and clad in brick and weatherboarding. Steep plain tiled hipped roof with gablets and tall brick ridge stack to left. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of casements. Entrance in gabled two-storey shallow projection to right. Catslide outshut to left. Interior: Evidence of screens passage on ground- floor with one 4-centred service door and remains of screen. 2 dragon beams in south (high) end. C16 fireplace with carved cambered wooden bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ7308576530 (4)

Formerly an open 1-bay hall and lower (N) end of a single aisled medieval house. The upper end was replaced in the 17th century. The lower end includes an overshot passage and was formerly jettied at the end. In the 17th century whatever lay beyond the upper end of the hall was replaced by the existing 2-bay south wing. (5)

Historic england archive material (6)

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE18076.

<3> Historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31591.

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

<6> Historic England, Archive material associated with Allen's Hill Farmhouse, Cliffe-at-Hoo, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57216.