Friary Court Friary Court And Old Friary Old Friary

1. 5274 SOUTHFLEET HOOK GREEN ROAD (east side)

Friary Court and Old Friary (formerly listed as The Rectory) TQ 6170 12/27 1.8.52

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1. C14 house, probably built by Thomas de Alkham, rector of Southfleet from 1323, altered and enlarged in the C19. The west and south fronts are the principal mediaeval portion. Two storeys and attics. Four windows and 3 gabled dormers facing west. Originally faced with flints but partly refaced in cement. Hipped tiled roof, the right hand portion with gablet, originally a smoke louvre. One trefoil-headed lancet window in the first floor. One window of 2 wider trefoil-headed lights with dripstone over on the ground floor. The other windows date from the C18 or C19. The west front is also faced with flints but in front of its south half is a gabled projection added in the C16-C17. The north end is a C19 addition with a bell to the attic storey. Internally the arrangement is of open hall and cross wings and the south wing contained the solar. This wing has at the rear one hall window, with a mullion and transom and sexfoiled ogees in the square head and the remains of a crown post roof.

Listing NGR: TQ6127470862