Dane Court

Dane Court is a manor house that dates from the 15th, 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame clad in painted brick and has a plain tile roof. This Wealden house has two storeys and an attic set on a plinth, with a wooden eaves cornice along the gabled roof, which includes four gabled dormers. There are two offset projecting end stacks on the left and three chimneys, including a flue for a bread oven, on the right with two additional chimneys. The house has a regular arrangement of windows, with four glazing bar sash windows on the first floor and three mid-19th century glazing bar sash windows on the ground floor, all set in gauged headed openings. The central entrance features a six-panelled and fielded door with sidelights and a large semi-circular traceried fan above. Inside, there are dragon beams that indicate where a jetty once existed, some 16th-century wainscotting in the hall, and carved door posts leading to an old screens passage. A date plaque from 1850 references Edward Hales and is located on a stack with triangular-headed beehives at its base.