Huntingfield

Huntingfield is a manor house, now a private residence, dating from the 16th century, with additions from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building features a timber frame and structural red brick, partially clad with buff-coloured mathematical tiles, and has plain tiled roofs. It consists of a range of four framed bays, with two 18th-century service wings added to the rear and an early 19th-century wing at the east end, which serves as the new entrance front. The house is two storeys high with a hipped roof and stacks at the rear on both the left and right sides.

The fenestration is regular, with five glazing bar sashes on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all featuring gauged heads. The central entrance door has six moulded and fielded panels, set within a heavily moulded and panelled door surround, topped by a semi-circular fanlight. The right side of the house, originally the main front, is now a side front, also clad with buff mathematical tiles, and has six glazing bar sashes on the first floor and five on the ground floor, along with a half-glazed door.

Inside, the 16th-century range reveals a heavy frame and moulded beams. The roof features clasped purlins with queen posts and wind braces. The entrance range has refined early 19th-century interiors, including marble fire surrounds and moulded corridor arches. There is a contemporary four-flight open well staircase with a ramped handrail and unmoulded balusters.

Huntingfield is notable as the birthplace and early home of Edward Hasted, a historian of Kent, who documented the surrounding foundations of flint and stone that belonged to a lost chapel and mill, as well as providing a full manorial history. In the late 18th century, the estate was linked with Belmont, where buff-coloured mathematical tiling is a prominent feature.