Terlingham Manor

Farmhouse. It likely dates back to the 16th century or possibly earlier, with alterations in the 17th century and a main range built in the late 18th century. The original section, now forming the rear left wing, is constructed of roughly-coursed knapped flint and sandstone, with stone quoins and dressings. The front of the main range is red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The roof is tiled.

A short section from the 16th or 17th century now forms the rear left wing and has been extended forward, possibly in the 17th century. The late 18th century main range consists of two parallel ranges that incorporate the forward extension into its left end.

The front elevation is two storeys high, with a cellar, and features a stone plinth, stone quoins, a brick top course, and a dentilled brick eaves cornice. The roof is hipped. Projecting brick stacks are on the left gable end (with a rendered and corniced flue) and on the right gable end (with a stone base). The windows are irregular, consisting of three recessed sashes with cambered heads. Two are tripartite (with four-pane central sections), and one is a four-pane sash with narrow margin lights. Two ground-floor sashes are also tripartite. All windows have splayed, rubbed brick voussoirs. A four-panel door with a rectangular four-light fanlight is set behind a porch with a hipped roof, to the left of centre. The left end of the main range has a short return gable leading back to the rear left wing.

The rear left wing has two lower storeys and a fragment of a chamfered stone plinth. The roof is hipped to the rear, and there is a projecting red and grey brick gable-end stack, in Flemish bond, on a galleted stone base, with irregular shoulders and a moulded flue plinth. A plain-chamfered rectangular stone first-floor window is towards the centre of the left side of the wing, with a plain-chamfered transom and a lower mullion, and a C19 two-light casement in the upper half. The outline of a similar blocked window is visible on the ground floor. The long right side of the wing is brick in a Flemish bond pattern.

Internally, only part of the property has been inspected. The rear wing contains a blocked inglenook fireplace with a wooden bressumer, and large joists. The stone cellar, under the left end room, and the entrance hall of the main range may relate to the left wing extension. A right ground-floor room in the main range has a chamfered axial beam and a brick fireplace with a bressumer.