Birling Place

Birling Place is a house that possibly dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The south front features red and blue brick with hipped plain tiled roofs and two valleys on either side of the center. There are two stacks, one on the right side and one in the left valley. The house has two storeys and five bays, with the center slightly recessed. The first floor has four window openings with glazing bar sashes, and the ground floor has margin lights. A central six-panelled door is topped by a radiating fanlight.

On the west front, there is red brick with a six-light stone mullion window featuring four-centred arch heads on the first floor to the left. There are remnants of roll-moulding at the cornice level to the right of the west side. The north front is made of red brick, rendered on the first floor to the right, and has a projecting hipped gabled wing to the left. The right side has two storeys with irregular fenestration of three windows, while the left side has two storeys and an attic, featuring two dormers and three windows on the first floor, along with two windows on the ground floor. Most windows are casements, except for the glazing bar sashes on the first floor of the projecting wing. The main entrance is to the left of the projecting wing, featuring a projecting hipped weather porch and a boarded door.

Inside, there is a long chamfered wooden bressumer above the fireplace, and the aisle posts of the original timber-framed hall can be seen in the dining room. A 19th-century staircase with turned balusters is present, and the roof over the original hall is a simple rafter-type roof without purlins or trusses. The site of the house is significant as it is the earliest known property of the Nevill family in England. The original timber-framed section likely took the form of an aisled hall, representing one of the earliest types of timber-framed hall houses in south-east England.