Listed Building record TQ 75 NW 314 - 4 AND 6 CHURCH WALK

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST MALLING & LARKFIELD CHURCH WALK TQ 75 NW (south side) 8/142 Nos 4 & 6 (formerly listed 1.8.52 as cottages occupied by H Coley and W Hudson)
GV II*
House, formerly hall-house of classic Wealden type. Early C15. Timber-framed with red brick infilling on ground floor and plaster infilling on first floor. Jetties on first floor in left and right hand bays and angle pieces supporting eaves in centre. Steep plain tiled roof, hipped with gablet to left and brought down as catslide extension. Large brick ridge stack to right of centre. 2 storeys; 3 window front, slightly irregular, wooden mullion casements. Boarded door in 4-centred arched surround under left end of right-hand jetty. INTERIOR: Drawing room. Moulded wooden bressumer to fireplace. Moulded central beam to insulated ceiling. Same original mouldings survive in drawing room from hall, including embattled dais-beam. Kitchen. Spere-truss survives in situ. Moulded octagonal crown-post to collar-purlin roof. Listing NGR: TQ7019657088 (1)

Description from record TQ 75 NW 80 :
(TQ 70195709) Nos 4 and 6 (formerly listed as cottages occupied by H Coley and W Hudson), Church Walk. House, formerly hall-house of classic Wealden type. Early 15th century (for full description see list). (2) Church Walk, blocked at the end by yew trees and the church, but starting with a jumbly group that has caught up in it a half timbered Wealden house. (3)

HE archive material: RCH01/048/01/239 Labelled sheet of drawings of numbers four and six Church Walk, East Malling, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, and detail sections of a ceiling beam and a dais beam

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling Kent 1987 51 (OS Card Reference). SKE40389.

<3> Bldgs of England W Kent & the Weald 1980 266 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38110.