Eythorne Court

Eythorne Court is a house dating back to the 15th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the 16th, 18th, and late 19th centuries. It is built of flint and red brick, with some areas rendered, and has a plain tiled roof. The house is L-shaped, with the main two-storey block facing the street and a two-storey hipped wing to its left. The entrance is located in a rear courtyard.

The main block, dating from the 18th century, is faced with red brick and has a hipped roof with rear stacks. The fenestration is irregular, featuring wooden casements, some with arched heads. A rib and stud door sits within a four-centred arched doorway, framed by chamfered brickwork under a gabled brick porch at the left end of the wing.

The garden front has two storeys on a plinth. The majority of the front is flint, except for the upper storey of the left end, which was rebuilt in the 18th century using red brick in English bond. It has a hipped roof with two large, offset flint stacks projecting at the left and right. The first floor has three sash windows, and the ground floor has two, with a central panelled door within a trellised gabled porch. Blocked round-headed openings are visible to the left in the brick section.

The interior reportedly has a crown post roof. The house was heavily altered in the late 19th century by the Bethlem Hospital, who then owned it, resulting in the loss of many original features, although it has since been restored. It is possibly originally from the mid-15th century, and may have been built for Sir Thomas Bourne, who was granted a license to build defensive features in 1546.