Nurstead Court

Nurstead Court, built around 1320 by Bishop Stephen de Gravesend, is an aisled timber hall consisting of four bays. The hall remained intact until 1825 when half of it was demolished and replaced by a stuccoed brick villa. This villa was "tudorised" in 1850, with the addition of gables and one bay, and was faced with newly invented Portland Cement. At the north-west corner, there are ruins from the 13th century of an unknown building made of flint and chalk in a chequered pattern.

The hall is surrounded by an 11-foot high wall made of knapped flint, with dressings of Caen stone. The tiled roof is supported by oak columns that are 21 inches in diameter, which carry deeply moulded curved braces to the aisle purlins and to a cambered beam that supports a squat crown post. This crown post is braced to short collars and the medial purlin, with mouldings that stop with leaf carvings similar to those on the capitals. There is one remaining gabled dormer window made of stone. Inside, there is a dais at the west end and a chamber on the first floor. The library features early 19th-century "Gothick" bookcases, and there is a semi-circular stair also from the 19th century.