Bayleaf, a Wealden house from Chiddingstone, Kent, is a timber-framed hall-house dating mainly from the early 15th century. The central hall, heated by an open fire, is flanked at one end by service rooms and at the other by rooms for the owner and his family. With replica furniture and equipment, the farmstead is presented as it might have been in the 16th century, about 1540. It is a type of house which was common in the Weald of East Sussex and Kent — hence the name ‘Wealden’ house. Most of these houses were built by prosperous traders and craftsmen in towns, and by yeoman farmers in the countryside. Bayleaf was dismantled 1968 and reconstructed 1972 at Singleton.