The Three Chimneys, Biddenden

The Three Chimneys

Hareplain Road, Biddenden TN27 8LW

Grade C · TraditionTrading · checked Sept 2026

The Three Chimneys claims 1420. No earlier record has been found.

Claimed

1420

First record

none found

Building

no single date

The building. 16th century with 18th-century alterations and extensions and a 20th-century range at the rear, per the listing; CAMRA says 15th century.

Real ale

Food

Rooms

Beer garden

Dog friendly

The claim

Down a lane outside Biddenden, the Three Chimneys is a rambling 15th-century weatherboarded pub of nooks and small rooms where beer is still poured straight from casks racked behind the bar. The simple old drinking room contrasts with a smart restaurant and conservatory, and the gardens and bedrooms make it a Weald favourite.

What the records show

The claim is the pub's own: its history page says the building dates from circa 1420 and the home page gives it 600 years. Historic England lists the house Grade II and describes it as a cottage, now a public house: 16th-century, timber-framed and roughcast, with 18th-century alterations and extensions and a 20th-century range at the rear. That puts the walls a century later than the 15th-century date CAMRA gives and than the 1420 that circulates, and it has the building starting as a cottage rather than an inn. No record of drink being sold here has been traced, and the listing gives no date for the change of use.

What to look for inside

Beer dispensed from ground-level stillage
House ale brewed by Goacher's
Simple matchboarded original drinking room

Visiting

The Three Chimneys is in Biddenden, England, at Hareplain Road, Biddenden TN27 8LW. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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