Kilndown House And Wall Projecting

Kilndown House is a house built between 1849 and 1855, designed by architect R C Carpenter. It is constructed of ashlar sandstone with some red brick and features a slate roof. The building consists of two parallel main sections with projecting service wings. There are two stacks on a plinth with gabled roofs, cylindrical stacks on either side, and a two-storey wing on the right.

The house has a decorated style tracered stair window on the upper left, with a single light below it. On the first floor, there are three two-light trefoil-headed windows, and on the ground floor, there are two three-light windows and one three-light window in the projecting wing. An arched doorway is located in the corner porch at the re-entrant angle of the two wings. The original main entrance is in a hipped porch on the left return, which was originally partly open and features a moulded arched outer doorway with open lights on the side wall.

To the right return, there is a single-storey and attic wing with an end stack, two gabled half-dormers, and a single light window. The garden front includes a gabled half-dormer and mullioned lights to the service wing. The main range has four trefoiled windows on the first floor, three on the ground floor, and a large canted bay with tracered lights.

Projecting from the entrance front is a short wall made of sandstone and red brick, about 8 feet high and approximately 10 yards long. Inside, the house features moulded arched inner doorways with drip moulds leading from the original main entry porch to the stair hall, which has a stone main staircase. There are wooden arched door surrounds, some original doors with brass hinges and escutcheons/key plates, and cast iron fireplaces in wooden surrounds with attached shafts and brackets. A turned baluster service stair is also present.

Kilndown House was originally built as the vicarage for Kilndown Church and is part of the complex of buildings on the Bedgebury estate associated with A Beresford-Hope.