Upper Gore End Farmhouse

Upper Gore End Farmhouse is a farmhouse that features a north and west wing likely dating from the mid 18th century, although it may have an earlier core, while the east wing is from the 19th century. There are minor 20th-century extensions. The north and west wings are constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, topped with tiled roofs and brick chimneystacks, while the east wing is made of stock brick.

The front range has three storeys with gable ends that have kneelers and two tall chimneystacks at the rear. It has three window spaces, but the central space is blank. The windows feature rubbed red brick voussoirs and are early 19th-century six-paned sashes. There is a simple central doorcase, also with a rubbed brick voussoir. The right side of this wing has one blank space on the first floor, but a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor and appears to show the outline of a Diocletian window in the gable. The western L-wing is lower, with two storeys in similar brickwork, an end chimneystack, and two first-floor windows, both with cambered head linings—one is a six-pane sash and the other is a 19th-century casement. There is a wide casement window on the ground floor and a simple doorcase, indicating that this wing was likely built as a service area. At the end of the range, there is a 19th-century stock brick lean-to. The entire eastern rear range appears to be a 19th-century service range of two storeys, constructed in yellow brick with a tiled roof, featuring two late 20th-century sashes and a 20th-century lean-to extension that includes a porch.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, there has been a building on this site since at least 1642, when Henry Robinson bequeathed it to St John’s College, Cambridge. The existing house closely resembles a drawing of the building on Thomas Hill's map from 1679, which was copied in 1740. It was one of only two dwellings outside the village of Birchington in this direction until the arrival of the railways in 1863.