Manor House

TR 06 SE HERNHILL HERNHILL GREEN (East side)

3/124 Manor House 24.1.67 GV II*

House and village rooms. C15 and early C19. Timber framed, part exposed with plaster infill, part clad with painted brick, extended with structural red brick part painted. Plain tiled and slated roof. Hall house with jettied cross-wing and C19 wing added at lower end of hall. Central hall range of 1 storey and attic with hipped roof projecting 2 storey and return hipped wing to left with returned jetty on dragon post; 2 storey wing with battlements to right. Hipped dormer to centre, and stacks at end left and centre right. Irregular fenestration of 5 Gothick windows. Boarded door in left return. Right return: 2 storeys and battlements. Regular fenestration of 2 three- light Gothick traceried metal casements with gauged basket arched heads and central 2 light traceried metal casement with gauged ogee surround on first floor, and 2 three-light casements with gauged basket arches on ground floor. Central panelled door with fanlight in ogee headed surround. Interior: frame visible. The Gothick metal casements are of iron on the outside and bronze or brass on the inside. This part of the building is used as the village club, founded by the Dawes family of Mount Ephraim, and one of the earliest in the country. (See B.0.E. Kent II, 1983, 351).

Listing NGR: TR0653860682