The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK PALEY LANE, (SOUTH TQ 73 NE SIDE) 3/205 9. 6.52 Hartridge Manor - II
Farmhouse. C17, clad in C19 and extended in mid and later C19. Timber-framed on wide red brick plinth, tile-hung above. Plain tiled roof, half-hipped with brick ridge stack. 2 storeys. Three windows, regular through the central first floor window is blocked. Tripartite glazing bar sashes. Entrance at rear. L-shaped block with mid C18 2 storey block in angle of L to rear with further wing beyond, (to north-east). Triple-span hipped roofed extension to right (south).
Listing NGR: TQ7747039831

Building survey undertaken by Archaeology South East in 2009. During the survey, much of the historic fabric was concealed beneath modern plasterboard, but a provisional assessment of the development of the property is as follows. 5 main phases of development. The building was built in the late C16, though only a fragment of the original building survives. The surviving element consists of a 4 bay timber-framed structure. While the exact layout of the original structure is uncertain, it would have extended to the north and possibly the south. The building was shortened in the early C18, and a range was added to the rear of the building. A chimney was added to the main building and the interior reorded to a symmetrical plan. In the C19 a two-storey extension was added to the rear of the building. In the large C19 further alterations were made, including the addition of another 2-storey brick extension to the rear of the building. In the C20 extensions were added to the south of the building. (1)

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

<1> Archaeology South-East, 2009, An Archaeological Interpretative Survey of Hartridge Manor, Cranbrook, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17085.