Wingham Court And Garden Wall

Wingham Court is a house that dates back to the 15th century, with extensions added in 1574, and it was reclad in the early 18th and early 19th centuries. The building features a timber frame that is clad with red brick and rendered on the entrance elevation, topped with a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high on a plinth, with boxed eaves and a hip roof on the left end, while the right end has a shaped gable. The house has iron wall ties marked with the initials W:C, a projecting stack at the right end, and a cluster of stacks to the centre left.

On the first floor, there are four glazing-bar sash windows, while the ground floor has two tripartite glazing-bar sashes and one single glazing-bar sash. The entrance door, located to the centre left, consists of eight panels and is set in a panelled surround topped with a pediment supported by engaged Doric columns. There are projecting rear wings to the main range, also featuring shaped gables. An extension to the left is a framed building with painted brick infill, one storey and an attic, which includes three hipped dormers and a stack at the rear right. This section has a canted bay with glazing-bar sashes and a bay to the right with a large tripartite glazing-bar sash. The door here has six raised and fielded panels, the top two of which are glazed, and is topped with a flat hood on brackets.

To the right, there is an 18th-century garden wall made of red brick, which sweeps down twice to about five feet and is buttressed. The wall extends east and south along the road front for about 50 yards, ending with a pier topped by a ball finial. Inside, the main range originally consisted of four framed bays with a central left cross-passage and features a crown-post roof. There is also a well located within the south wing and an attached single-storey range with a stack dated 1574. The interiors are panelled. Wingham Court served as the manor house for the Archbishop's manor of Wingham, where archbishops and notable figures of the time often resided.