Finglesham Grange

House. 18th century with 19th-century remodelling around a 17th-century core, substantially renewed circa 1900. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs except red tile to tower. Two parallel ranges with corner entrance tower and rear wing.

The house was built in four phases. The main 3-bay front appears to date from circa 1840, with a wing added immediately behind it around 1860. To the right is an entrance tower added circa 1900, with a wing of the circa 1860 build behind it, and behind that an 18th-century cottage.

Exterior: Two storeys with plinth and moulded cornice to parapet. Stacks to rear. A projecting entrance porch-cum-tower stands to the right, 4 storeys high with timber and glazed top stage and tiled spire. The ground floor of the main front has a central glazed door, a 5-light mullion and transom window centred to the left with baluster parapet, and a 3-light mullion and transom window to the right. Above are 2-light windows with indoor flanks of single lights and pedimented heads. These dressings and the parapet appear to be additions of circa 1900. The tower has a projecting porch with moulded 4-centred arched doorway at the head of a half-landing and flight of steps. The first floor contains a Venetian-type window, and the second floor a 4-light mullion and transom window. Other elevations are very plain with sash windows in segmental heads. The 18th-century wing has 2 sliding sashes above a modern window.

Interior: The more elaborated rooms are new Jacobean work of circa 1900, though some plainer earlier rooms survive. The staircase hall has an open-well stair with turned balusters, ramped handrail and dado rail with pilasters supporting a ceiling frieze. Otherwise there is contemporary joinery, dado panelling, panelled inglenook recesses with lugged fire surrounds and moulded geometric ceilings. The interior of the 18th-century wing has been entirely modernized.

The building was occupied by the Master of West Street Hunt and used by the 1st Duke of Wellington as a hunting lodge.