Leybourne Grange

Leybourne Grange is a country house, now serving as an administration building for Leybourne Mental Hospital. It was built around 1850 by S W Dawkes. The building features stuccoed facades with raised quoins on the central and end projections, which are two storeys high, and panelled pilasters at the attic storey. There is a string course between the ground and first floors, a cornice between the first and attic floors, and a parapet with cornice moulding above the attic. The slate hipped roofs are concealed by the parapet, which has various stacks, including two arched stacks at the centre of the parapet on the end projections.

The central projection is topped with a pediment that is broken by an open pediment framing a coat-of-arms. The building has two storeys and an attic, with the attic almost functioning as a complete third storey. The facade is regularly arranged with eleven bays, although the central projection is divided into two bays at the attic storey, featuring a single triple-arched window below. There is a pair of windows flanking the central entrance. Most windows are glazing bar sashes, except for the ground floor sashes and the central first floor window, which lacks glazing bars, as do the two windows beside the main door. The ground and first floor windows have segment-headed eared surrounds with cill brackets. The central ground floor entrance is a ponte-conchere with a balustrade over six columns, paired at each end, with single columns separating the wider central opening from the narrower flanking openings. Behind this, there are doubled half-glazed doors with an overlight.