Description from record TQ 65 NW 50:
(TQ 61255549) (Claygate Cross Cottage (NAT) (1) TQ 65 NW PLAXTOL WINFIELD LANE 2/29 (north side) 13.7.73 Claygate Cross Cottage II* Farmhouse. Late C15-early C16 hall-house. Irregular ground floor of coursed, galletted rubble stone and red brick with some exposed timber-framing. Timber-framing above with one curved brace to right and plater infilling. Plain tiled hipped roof brought down as catslides to left and right. Off-ridge stack off-centre to right. Slope stack on each catslide extension. Two-storeys; 4 window, irregular sized casements. Boarded door to left of second window from left. Interior. Two crown posts, plus hall crown-post, heavily moulded on arched tie-beam. Moulded dais-beam with crenellated cresting. One doorway, to original parlour, with moulded wooden Tudor arch surround. One room with heavily moulded ceiling beams. (2) Not mentioned in the Buildings of England. (3)

Description from record TQ 65 NW 81 :
Probably built in the late C15 or early C16. Two bay hall, an unjettied parlour end and a service end with an end jetty.

Dendrochronology dating of the open hall gave a date range of 1442-1477. (4)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 NW PLAXTOL WINFIELD LANE 2/29 (north side)
13.7.73 CLAKKERS HALL
II*
Farmhouse. Late C15-early C16 hall-house. Irregular ground floor of coursed, galletted rubble stone and red brick with some exposed timber-framing. Timber-framing above with one curved brace to right and plater infilling. Plain tiled hipped roof brought down as catslides to left and right. Off-ridge stack off-centre to right. Slope stack on each catslide extension. Two-storeys; 4 window, irregular sized casements. Boarded door to left of second window from left. Interior. Two crown posts, plus hall crown-post, heavily moulded on arched tie-beam. Moulded dais-beam with crenellated cresting. One doorway, to original parlour, with moulded wooden Tudor arch surround. One room with heavily moulded ceiling beams.
Listing NGR: TQ6129155466 (5)

Additional reference (6)

Historic England archive material (7)

<1> OS 1:2500 1973 (OS Card Reference). SKE48215.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Tonbridge and Malling, Kent May 1984 58 (OS Card Reference). SKE41380.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37841.

<4> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 19, Pg. 49 (Website). SKE17391.

<5> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<6> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<7> Historic England, Archive material associated with Clakkers Hall, Plaxtol Listed Building (Archive). SKE55701.