Brenchley Manor

Heritage listing

Details TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, BRENCHLEY 6/38 Brenchley Manor (formerly listed as The Old Parsonage) 20.10.54 GV II* Large house. C16 or earlier origins with substantial alterations and additions of 1912-14 form Mr C.H. Allfrey (Oswald). Close-studded framed construction; peg-tile roof; brick stacks. Plan: The house faces east. The main range is 3 rooms on plan with an entrance to right of centre, probably originally into a cross passage. High quality hall to the left of the entry, with a rear lateral stack, fine parlour beyond at the east end, also heated from a rear lateral stack. The lower end is a small service room, originally unheated. It is difficult to judge how much of the surviving house, apart from the main range, dates from the C16. Behind the main block further rooms, including service rooms, are housed under a 3 span roof at right angles, the rear completed by a block parallel to the main range. The house was thoroughly restored between 1912 and 1914, when the rear left (north west) wing was added in a style to match the main block and a stair hall was incorporated to the rear of the C16 hall. The alterations matched the style of the original externally and incorporated features imported from elsewhere, obscuring the service rooms to the original house. The roof construction is wholly C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window north front, the roof half-hipped at ends. Most of the chimneyshafts are early C20, the parlour stack is handmade brick with a staggered shaft. The close-studded framing was exposed in circa 1912 and most of the studs are renewed. The first floor is jettied with a moulded fascia - one of the jetty brackets has a roll-moulding and the left end (south) corner has a triple bracket. The porch, to right of centre, is prob

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.