Remains Of Monastic Building, Now Outbuilding

MANSTON MANSTON COURT ROAD TR 3466-3566 (east side) 4/5 Remains of monastic building, 13.8.68 now outbuilding GV II Probable first floor hall, now outbuilding. Circa 1235 and extended C18. Flint with Caen stone dressings and with plain tiled roof extended with brick and plain tiled roof. Main building of 2 storeys, with parapet gables, stair turret and arched lights to east (right return), 2 large segmentally headed openings on first floor, and smaller casement with carriage doors to left on ground floor. Brick surround garret window on left return. The remains of a fireplace-back survive on the upper floor, making the traditional view of the building as a chapel unlikely, it is more probably a first-floor hall house associated with the monastic grange of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Single storey range added to left C18, with 2 boarded doors and wooden casement, and stack at end left. (See Archaeologia Cantiana, no. 12, p.376).

Listing NGR: TR3432866655