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Eastwell Manor

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

Name	Eastwell Manor
Alternative Names	Estwell
Historic Country	Kent
Modern Authority	Kent
1974 Authority	Kent
Civil Parish	Eastwell

Eastwell Manor and Courtyard Gateways 1843 by William Burn, rebuilt 1926 - 8 by B.C. Deacon. Flint, dressed stone and plain tile roof. An 'E' plan, with extended wings, including remains of C18 house by Joseph Bonomi. ... The remains of the earlier house now form attached walled gardens left. and right. Subsidiary features: in the courtyards to the rear of the house are 2 C16 gateways (formerly separately listed), a round headed stone archway with flanking columns and cartouche over, and, to north, a 4 centred brick arched gateway, castellated, flanked by buttresses and castellated walls. Interior: the house contains many earlier features brough in from elsewhere in C20, including an oriel window in the kitchen court, panelling from Markyate, Hertfordshire, and a C17 staircase, provenance unknown. (Listed building report)

Sir Moyle Finch ... resided at Eastwell-place, which he made very great additions to, and in 1589, obtained the queen's licence to inclose his grounds here, not exceeding one thousand acres, and to turn the highways that might be annoyed by it, and to embattle his house of Estwell. (Hasted)

Gatehouse Comments

The last known licence to crenellate granted to Sir Moile Finche to crenellate his mansion house at Eastwell in 5 June 1589. The current Eastwell manor in a mainly C19 house and the house has had several periods of rebuilding since 1589 but it is clear from the surviving remains the late C16 house had only decorative crenellations and was not seriously defensible. However, a definition of a fortified manor house is a house granted a licence to crenellate - regardless of the form of the house - so this was a fortified manor house.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number

Historic England Listed Building number(s)

1299575

Images Of England

181521

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

503809
503810

County Historic Environment Record

webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploringKentsPast.Web.Sites.Public/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MKE22030

OS Map Grid Reference	TR017477
Latitude	51.191520690918
Longitude	0.884769976139069
Eastings	601700
Northings	147700