Town House And East Lodge

This is a timber-frame house, divided into two dwellings, dating from the early 17th century. It has undergone remodelling and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The ground floor is faced with Flemish bond red brick, featuring vitrified headers, and a brick string course marks the first-floor level. The upper portion of the house is tile-hung. A section of the right-hand addition is constructed from stone rubble and red brick. The roof is covered in red plain tiles and is hipped.

The house is arranged in an L-shaped plan, with four rooms in the main front range and a single-room wing behind the leftmost room. A 19th-century extension fills the angle, and there's a late 20th-century stair tower on the rear. A large brick axial stack sits to the left of the centre, with a diagonal shaft at the front and a projecting English bond brick stack at the end of the rear wing of the Town House, now truncated. An original 17th-century rear wing includes its own end stack with an oven. A 19th-century extension to the right-hand end of the main range includes at least one room, with another potentially also being an addition. Further extensions to the rear were added in the 19th century, likely when the house was divided into two separate dwellings: Town House occupies the left-hand room, passage, and rear wing, while East Lodge occupies the three right-hand rooms of the main range.

The south front is asymmetrical, featuring four windows on each storey. The windows are 20th-century two- and three-light casements without glazing bars, set within earlier, smaller window openings. A doorway is located to the left of the centre, featuring an 18th or 19th-century fielded-panel door, with glazed upper panels and a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets.

Inside the Town House section, the ground-floor room on the left features a stop-chamfered axial beam. The rear wing has a chamfered beam with ogee stops. A brick fireplace is present in the rear wing, though its lintel has been replaced. A good quality 2-panel bolection-moulded door connects the two rooms. On the first floor, there is a 17th-century eight-panel door and an early 18th-century fielded-panel door with a drop handle. The interior of the East Lodge section has been completely modernised and retains no original features. The roof is a softwood common-rafter structure with queen-post trusses and clasped purlins.

A plan of the Manor of Wrotham, dated 1620, shows the house (Town House) in its original layout.