Hollingbourne Manor

Hollingbourne Manor is a manor house dating to the late 16th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with a plain tile roof. The building is an unfinished E-plan, with only the north wing partially built. It has two storeys and attics.

The manor features a brick plinth with moulded stone coping, a broad moulded brick string-course with a rendered base above the ground-floor windows, and a brick corbel table to the eaves with a rendered moulded brick cornice above. Rendered quoins are visible on the first floor. Four broad brick stacks, in English bond and each with three diagonally-set flues, project from the gable ends of the south wing, with the plinth, string-course, and cornice continued around them. One stack is situated towards each end of the main range. The gables are kneelered and triangular, with flattened rectangular tops and heavily moulded rendered brick coping. Five full-height brick eaves dormers, similarly gabled, are present, each topped with a rendered cylindrical finial protruding through the coping. Two dormers are on the north side of the south wing, three on the main range, including a porch, and a further three on the south elevation, likely from the 18th century. Courtyard dormers, except for that on the porch, are supported by slightly projecting two-storey brick window bays, with the bay in the re-entrant angle being deeper to provide light to the staircase.

The windows are ogee-moulded wooden mullioned and transomed, with leaded lights and rendered dressings. Dormers have 6-light windows with stepped moulded rendered hoodmoulds which return as dormer eaves cornices. The first floor has 8-light windows, while the ground floor features 10-light windows. A small 2-light mullioned window is above the entrance door. The entrance door has a ribbed design and is set within a 4-centred arched moulded stone architrave with carved spandrels and a squared moulded hoodmould.

The exterior walls of the north wing rise to the ground-floor string course, and are now topped with a flat roof. A shallow, rectangular turret is situated towards the centre of the north gable end of the main range, likely from the late 16th century, constructed of red brick in English bond, and featuring an eaves cornice and gable matching the main range. A round-headed first-floor window is present on the gable, with a hollow-chamfered brick architrave. A rear lean-to is constructed of red brick in English bond, with a moulded 4-centred arched stone doorway, and a three-storey stair turret extends from behind the left stack of the main range, also of red brick in English bond, with a plain gable.

The interior, only partly inspected, includes a wooden screen to the left of the former screens passage with ovolo-moulded rails, muntins, and pierced trelliswork. Moulded beams, a moulded wooden rear doorway, moulded 4-centred arched stone fireplaces, and an open-well staircase with turned balusters, a moulded string and handrail, and polygonal finials and pendants to the newels are also present. There are said to be 16th-century wall paintings on the upper floor of the south wing, with 18th-century panelling on the first floor of the main range. The ground-floor panelling is largely from the early 20th century. Fragments of a thick-walled, possibly 13th-century building are located in the southwest corner, with a pointed-arched stone opening at the south end of the hall.