YALDHAM MANOR

YALDHAM MANOR, KEMSING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236457
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: YALDHAM MANOR
Statutory Address:: YALDHAM MANOR, KEMSING ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236457
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: YALDHAM MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: YALDHAM MANOR, KEMSING ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: YALDHAM MANOR, KEMSING 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:: Wrotham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 58696 58758

Details

TQ 55 NE WROTHAM C.P. KEMSING ROAD 4/1 (south side) 1.8.52 Yaldham Manor

II

Manor house. C14 open hall with C17 and C19 alterations. South front. Random rubble stone plinth. Red and blue brick with some galletted random rubble stone. Some stone dressing and cement window surrounds. Plain tiled roof with brick stacks off-centre to right. Half-hipped return gable to right, return gable to left with end projecting chimney-breast topped by paired decorated stacks and decorative tile-hanging on gable. 2 storeys in gable ends, tall 1-storey hall in centre. Large 6-flight transom and mullion with lattice casements, lighting hall in centre. 1 arched window to right, door to left arched with drip-mould. 3 windows on 1st floor under gable to left, 2 windows on ground-floor, on this floor under drip-moulds. 3 tall closely-spaced windows on 1st floor under right-hand gable, french casements on ground-floor. L-shaped wing to left of main block with half-hipped return gable and moulded barge-boards to left. Red brick on random rubble-stone plinth with corbelled brick eaves. Plain tiled roof with double stack to right behind ridge, 3 stacks to centre left and 1 dormer to right with sloping flat roof. 2 storeys and attics; irregular fenestration with 1 attic window in gable, 3 windows on 1st floor and 2 on ground-floor, on this floor with segment-heads. All casement windows. Separated from main block by high garden-wall to south. North side. Random stone plinth, red and some blue brick. Centre C17, projecting wings C19, that to left deeper. Plain tiled roof with 4 small tile-hung gables over centre. 2 storeys and attic; almost regular central block of 4 windows, with 1 window wings. Lattice casements, in central recess in segment-head surrounds with raised heads. Cement-band over ground-floor in centre and bull's eye window over centre. Arched entrance with brick drip-mould over and double boarded doors. Gabled, tile-hung porch on wooden supports with lattice glazed sides. Interior: Open hall with moulded arch-braced principals, are on mask supporting bracket. Remains visible of stencil decoration of roof timbers, as well as evidence of smoke blackening. 'Bollen' signature inscribed on pane in south window, reputed to be that of Anne Boleyn. The house was originally built by the De Aldham family, and their heirs through the female line, the Peckhams, who held the Manors of East and WestAldham, between 1192 and 1713. Relegated to status of farmhouse at latter date, it was restored and added to at the end of the C19.

Listing NGR: TQ5869658758

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Legacy System number:: 427454
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.