Dymchurch Rectory

Dymchurch Rectory is a house that now serves as a rectory, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with an early 18th-century facade. The building is timber framed and clad in red brick laid in Flemish bond, featuring occasional grey headers and three courses of grey headers in a flush band between the floors. It has a plain tile roof and consists of four timber-framed bays that create two rooms and two narrow end stack bays. The central entrance hall was created in the 18th century. The structure is two storeys high with an attic, set on a plinth, and has coped brick gables with red brick kneelers and gable end ridge stacks. A small central skylight is present. The front facade has a regular arrangement of five windows, each with 12-pane glazing bar sashes in open boxes, segmental heads to the glazing bars, and brick voussoirs. The ground floor windows are similar. There is a half-glazed inner door located within a 20th-century brick porch featuring half-glazed double doors, and a rear lean-to is also present.

Inside, the rear wall displays broadly spaced square framing with large posts and heavy curved tension braces, along with chamfer-stopped beams and joists. A large inglenook fireplace is located to the left, and the stairs have splat balusters, some from the 19th century and some possibly earlier. Broad 18th-century panelled doors are found throughout, and the ground floor room to the right is fully furnished with fielded panels and a lightly-moulded cornice. The building has a clasped purlin roof. Dymchurch Rectory became a rectory in 1947.