The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY FAIRMANS LANE
6/75 Chill Mill 20.10.54 GV II
House. Probably late C16/early C17, perhaps with an earlier core; early C20 alterations; later rear additions. Framed construction; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: The house is set back from the road and faces approximately south. Details of plan unclear as access to interior unobtainable at time of survey (1989). 5 bays. 3 room lobby entrance arrangement, the 2 right hand (east) rooms heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, hall in the centre, parlour or kitchen to the right. The left hand room was originally an unheated service room, probably divided into 2, with a later stack added at the left end. A narrow bay associated with the stack suggets that the house was probably floored from the outset, but it could relate to a former passage and the house may have medieval origins. Triple shafts in the stack indicate a heated chamber over the hall.
Exteior: 2 storeys. Roof half-hipped at ends. Staggered triple shafts to the axial stack with a corbelled brick cornice. Framing of fairly closely- spaced studs with downward curving tension braces above the middle rail in the outer bays. Almost symmetrical 4-window front, 6 windows to the first floor. Pentice along the front at first floor level with a peg-tile roof on brackets, interrupted by a probably early C20 gabled framed porch re-using old timbers. Early C20 plank front door. Circa 1920s windows: 1-, 2- and 4-light casements glazed with plate glass, the ground floor windows with high transoms. Rear elevation not inspected.
Interior and Roof: Not inspected as access unobtainable, but likely to be of interest.
An internal inspection might necessitate revising the dating suggested here and would be advisable if any planning application were proposed to ensure that medieval or later features of interest are not disturbed.
Listing NGR: TQ6786041430


Building survey undertaken by Archaeology South East in 2008. A building stood on the site in the C15, against which two further bays were added in the late C15. In the late C16 / early C17 the original building was demolished, leaving the late C15 bays as the earliest surviving part of the current structure, and a new four-bay section was added as a replacement. In the mid C18 there were major upgrades, including the replacement of the roof. Small additions were made to both ends of the house in the early C20, but were subsequently removed. Between 1908-1938 the house was restored, and much of its appearance dates to this phase of work. An extension was added along the length of the rear of the building, and a further two-storey extension was added to the rear and west of the building. (1)

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

<1> Archaeology South-East, 2008, An Archaeological Interpretative Survey of Chillmill Manor, Brencheley, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17099.