Gore Farmhouse

TQ 86 NW UPCHURCH GORE FARM LANE (north side)

1/5 Core Farmhouse

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Manor house, now farm. Circa 1400 and mid C16, with C18 additions. Timber framed and tile hung, underbuilt with painted brick with plain tile roof. Hall and cross-wing. Entrance front C16 wing, 2 storeys with hipped roof, centre-right stack, and projecting hipped wing to left with catslide and central stack, Two Gothick traceried casement windows on each floor, and 1 Gothick and 1 ordinary wood casement in left-hand wing. Central board door with gabled porch. Interior: hall-house with traces of medieval stone- work in north west, primitive crown post in chamber, an unmoulded post braced only to collar purlin, smoke-blackened timbers, and C17 inserted floors and stack. Side wing of c. 1540, with moulded crown-posts. Documentary research shows the stones of the C12 manor house sold for repairs to Rochester Castle in 1390's, at which time manor became monastic possession (information from County Archives in hands of owner.)

Listing NGR: TQ8435666516