Benenden Playgroup

Benenden Playgroup is a purpose-built Working Man's Institute, now serving as the headquarters for a playgroup. It was constructed in 1881 for Lord Cranbrook in the Kentish Vernacular style, likely designed by George Dewey. The building features a ground floor made of red brick with some black brick diaperwork, while the first floor is tile hung with decorative tile bands. It has a modern tiled roof and irregular window arrangements with chinoisserie metal panes.

On the southwest elevation, there is a projecting gable with a three-light casement on the first floor and a five-light canted bay on the ground floor. The brick porch, located at the angle of the T-shaped plan, has a four-centred headed doorway with a hood moulding and a hipped projection above with a fixed light. The T-wing includes a three-light casement on the first floor and a ground floor verandah supported by four curved wooden posts, which features an integral wooden seat with a splat baluster back.

The northwest elevation has a right-side projecting gable, tile hung above, with a two-light metal-framed casement. The ground floor includes a modified Ipswich window, a projecting external brick chimneystack, a two-light metal casement, and a three-light mullioned and transomed casement with a cambered head above a round-headed door set in a section of ramped walling. The rear of the building has additional gables and outshuts.