Court Lodge

House. It dates from the 15th century or earlier and was restored in 1911. It is timber framed and largely tile hung, with some red brick and exposed timbering to the rear and side elevations. The roof is tiled. The house is a hall house with crosswings and an extended service end. It has a single-storey hall with an attic, two-storey wings, a jettied cross-hipped wing to the right, and a projecting gable and stepped-up gable rising from the main ridge to the left. Chimneys are located centrally and to the left, with a central hipped dormer window. The windows are irregularly placed, featuring wooden casements and early 20th-century mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor. A panelled front door has sidelights and a flat hood. The left return elevation has large 17th-century mullioned and transomed windows. The interior originally comprised a two-bay hall, a service bay, and a parlour crosswing. There are remains of a 15th-century exterior kitchen (the rafters are smoke blackened and incorporated into the left-hand service wing), along with jowls for three service doors from the cross-passage. A 16th or 17th-century kitchen has a smoke bay at the north end of the main range, likely reconstructed from a 15th-century structure. The hall has a crown post roof, while the crosswing has a heavily braced tie beam without a crown post, also featuring a dragon beam. The house was likely built, along with the adjacent barn, by Christ Church Priory (Canterbury Cathedral) and was restored for the File family around 1911.