Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Kent . The Kent listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers and Visitors.
Bapchild pub history index and early maps of the area according to the NLS site
Residents at this address.
Hempstead House has 14 rooms according to the 1911 census.
Hempstead House is referred to as having an address of Tonge in the 1939 electoral register
The current restaurant at the spa hotel is called Lakes after the oweners in the 1850s. There are two Lake residences mentioned about this time, but no mention of Hempstead House before 1911.
This is today a modern privately owned Hotel and Spa. It is not cheap, and the facilities are very nice, if a little too expensive.
I stayed here for a weekend in October 2020 just before the November 2020 lockdown, and the election of Biden (we are still hoping). I was not iompressed, more a Trump style of hotel, more on promise than reality.
[26th May 1901, Lambert Phillips marries Ethel Marion Pine at West Malling, Kent]
1911/Lambert Phillips/Hop Grower/35/Malling, Kent/Census
1911/E M Phillips/Wife/33/Maidstone, Kent/Census
1911/Roy Phillips/Son/7/Wateringbury, Kent/Census
1911/Annie Worsley/Cook/25/Ospringe, Kent/Census
1911/J Alexander/Nursery Governess/25/London/Census
1939/Leslie Doubleday/Farmer/Born 4th September 1887//Electoral Register
1939/Nora Doubleday/Domestic duties/Born 11th March 1889//Electoral Register
1939/Alice Foster/Domestic duties/Born 26th January 1904//Electoral Register
1939/Alfred E Doone/Indoor Manservant/Born 12th October 1876//Electoral Register
1939/Marlenbe C Munro//Born 25th January 1934//Electoral Register
1939/James D Powell/School Master/Born 13th May 1911//Electoral Register
1939/Phyllis N Powell/Domestic duties/Born 8th September 1915//Electoral Register