The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5282 MURSTON East Hall TQ 96 SW 9/51 10.9.51. II 2. A large timber-framed house, of which the main front faces North. 2 storeys and attics plastered. Tiled roof with pentice behind. 3 dormers. The 1st floor oversails on a bressumer and brackets. 5 casement windows. L-wing in brown brick added at the West end in the C19. Roof slopes to ground floor at rear.
Listing NGR: TQ9249064271

Description from record TQ 96 SW 219:
As with its neighbour at Mere Court (TQ 96 SW 218), the Department of Environment listing for East Hall Farm gives a very basic description, largely superseded by the more recent historic building assessment. This assessment argues that the original building dates to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century; a two storey structure with the stack part of the original build. It has an outshut (or side aisle) to the south, which is of note.

The porch to the north is shown on the 1840 tithe map and is considered to be at some time post medieval. In the 19th century a further porch was added to the eastern side of the building and then a new ‘wing’ to the south of the house. This became the principal entrance and ‘best’ parlour of the house, dated to c. 1870. The house also has a post medieval basement.

In the late 18th or early 19th century, a retaining wall was built to regularise the mound on which the house sits. This wall enclosed a garden referred to as a 'pleasure ground'. The south boundary of this wall has been demolished. Access to the service yard is through a mock Tudor arch.

The farmyard is located to the north of the house. The layout dates to at least the 19th century and may be older. Most of the surviving buildings are of 19th century date.

Two of the farmyard buildings were singled out by the assessment. One is a single storey animal shed containing four queen post trusses and associated elements, which may date it to the late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries, although it has been extended to the south in the 18th or 19th centuries. The other is a Granary, a small single storey structure in the middle of the farmyard. Its features suggest a late 18th century date; a raised floor with close fitting boards and windows for ventilation, the roof has two king-post trusses secured with iron elements.

The report concludes with an assessment of conservation issues facing East Hall farm [1].

See also [2 and 3].

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

<1> Alan Baxter & Associates, 2002, Mere Court and East Hall Farm, Murston, near Sittingbourne, Kent. An Historic Buildings and Conservation Issues Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE12510.

<2> Symonds Group, 2002, Land at NE Sittingbourne East Hall Farm Environmental Statement (Unpublished document). SKE12511.

<3> CgMs Consulting, 2003, Archaeological Desk Based Assessment East Hall Farm Sittingbourne Kent (Unpublished document). SKE12512.