Hale Close

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