Hale Close
HALE CLOSE, ROCHESTER ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070552
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hale Close
- Statutory Address:
- HALE CLOSE, ROCHESTER ROAD
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-01-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/11691/17
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Richards. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070552
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hale Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALE CLOSE, ROCHESTER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HALE CLOSE, ROCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aylesford
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 73577 60932
Details
AYLESFORD CP ROCHESTER ROAD TQ 76 SW (south side) 4/86 Hale Close -
- II
Hall house, now house. Circa 1470-1500, with alterations and additions of C16-C20. Timber-framed, clad in painted brick, painted plaster, painted random rubble stone and some creosoted weather-boarding. Plain tiled roof, hipped to right, half-hipped to left with half-hipped cross-wing to rear and gabled C18 extension to right with projecting C20 half-hipped wing. Main brick ridge stack to right of main block. Secondary stack with wide projecting breast on front of main block in centre. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 2 windows on both floors of main block, and 2 windows on both floors of subsidiary block. C20 boarded and ribbed door under over-hang of former right-hand jetty, which rests on joist-ends and 2 curved brackets Interior: substantial evidence of timber- framing. Some internal alterations c.1950 reputedly by Robert Lutyens. The main block seems originally to have been a Wealden-type hall house but this was truncated later, possibly in the C17, at the north end.
Listing NGR: TQ7319859030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179259
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 27-Jun-2026 at 18:38:23.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.