Friars

This is an early 19th-century house located on Brentwood Road in Herongate. It is constructed of gault brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof. The house has a rectangular plan, facing southeast, and features two internal stacks on each side. A single-storey extension from the 19th century is attached to the left, with a 20th-century conservatory beyond. To the right, set back from the front, is an early 19th-century service wing, along with a small two-storey lean-to extension to its rear, and a single-storey ancillary range to the rear of that.

The main range has a full-width verandah to the front with cast-iron Gothic stanchions of a quatrefoil section, perforated cast-iron brackets, and a glass roof. The elevation is symmetrical, with a ground floor featuring two original sashes of 8 lights over 8 lights, each with a shallow segmental brick arch. The first floor has three similar sashes. A central 6-panel door is set within a semi-elliptical brick arch, above which sits a fanlight with cast-iron geometrical tracery. The left wing features a similar sash and a concave parapet that sweeps up to meet the main range. The right wing has one similar sash on each floor, and a hipped roof. The left elevation of the main range includes a small ground-floor window with a semicircular arch and a first-floor replacement or inserted sash. The right elevation has two early 19th-century sashes of 8 lights over 8 lights, each with a segmental arch, a flush 4-panel door with a semi-elliptical arch and blank spandrel, and two 19th-century casements in the ancillary range. The rear elevation has two original sashes of 8 lights over 8 lights with segmental arches on the ground floor, along with a 20th-century casement in an original aperture, a 20th-century glazed door in an original aperture, and another in an altered window aperture, all with segmental arches. The first floor has two similar sashes.

Inside, the house retains 4-panel doors with panelled jambs, original plaster ceiling cornices in the entrance hall and front ground-floor rooms, and an original straight staircase with turned newel posts, stick balusters, an open string, and a walnut handrail. A white marble fireplace is located in the front left ground-floor room.