The Wealden Hall Restaurant is a Grade II* listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Farmhouse, restaurant. 9 related planning applications.

The Wealden Hall Restaurant

WRENN ID
vast-casement-crag
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Tonbridge and Malling
Constituency
Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1987
Type
Farmhouse, restaurant
Address
The Wealden Hall Restaurant, London Road, East Malling & Larkfield, ME20 6DE
OS grid reference
TQ 703 583
Coordinates
51.29837, 0.44214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wealden Hall Restaurant is a farmhouse that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the late 14th century on the right side, with a mid-17th century block on the left. The main block features exposed timber-framing with curved braces and brick infilling. The first floors of the service and solar ends project forward on brackets and joists, with a dragon post on the right. There is a central recess supported by two curved braces, and the building has a plain tiled hipped roof with gablets, a gabled dormer on the left, a central off-ridge stack at the front, and an end stack on the right.

The structure is two storeys high with an irregular two-window front. All windows are located in the central recess except for one window on the left side of the ground floor, which is situated under the right-hand jetty. Most windows are glazing bar sashes, except for a non-opening window with glazing bars on the ground floor to the right. To the right of the recess, there is an arched doorway featuring a 20th-century boarded and ribbed door, and to the left, a two-storey bay window.

The extension is timber-framed and exposed on the first floor, with red brick dressings. The ground floor is made of coursed rubble stone with red brick dressings. It has a plain tiled roof with a central ridge stack, is two storeys tall with cellars, and has an irregular two-window front. Most windows are glazing bar sashes, except for a casement window on the first floor to the left. There is one segment-headed collar light to the right and a 20th-century boarded and ribbed door with a pentice hood, located off-centre to the left.

At the rear of the main block, there is a gabled stair-tower. Inside, the hall has been floored over and features a collar-purlin roof with a crown-post. There is a longitudinal crown-post roof over the first floor of the service end, which may be remnants of the upper floor hall from which the house was later developed.

Local climate

The Wealden Hall Restaurant receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 9 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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