Finchcocks

The property is noted for its brickwork and has a dramatic front elevation attributed to Thomas Archer. It is located in 25 acre of grounds. There is parkland to the front and a garden to the rear with wide formal lawns, mature shrub borders, an orchard for wild flowers, and a grade II listed walled garden and summerhouse. To the East and West of the property lies a grade II listed Ha Ha. There are extensive views over the Kentish landscape of park, farmland, and hop-gardens. The house has an elongated rectangular main block with curved and projecting flanking wings in the English Baroque style. The imposing front façade displays a painted moulded cornice supported on Tuscan corner pillars…

Finchcocks was acquired by Richard Burnett, a fortepianist, in 1970. The Adlam Burnett workshop (founded by Derek Adlam and Richard Burnett) was set up at the house and enabled instrument makers to produce copies of historical keyboard instruments in an ideal environment, learning from the construction of many originals. The building housed the Katrina and Richard Burnett collection of over 100 historical keyboard instruments; about forty of which were fully restored to playing condition. These could be seen and heard whenever the house was open to the public; it was one of the few collections of historical instruments at which people were welcome to play them themselves. With the Burnetts'…