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Great Dixter – half mile north of Northiam
Great Dixter is actually three houses, one built here in the mid-15th century with slightly later additions, the second a yeoman’s house from Benenden, across the border in Kent, built in the early 16th century and moved here in 1910, and the third combines the two with additional accommodation, completed in 1912. It was at this time that the house, hitherto called merely Dixter, was renamed Great Dixter, to distinguish it from Little Dixter next door.
Penshurst Place - Penshurst
Set in the rural Weald of Kent surrounded by picturesque countryside and ancient parkland, Penshurst Place and Gardens has changed little over the centuries.
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Chartwell – Near Westerham
The home of Sir Winston Churchill from 1924 until the end of his life. A delightful family home, with stunning views over the Weald, which became the place from which Sir Winston drew inspiration. The rooms and gardens remain much as they were when he lived here, with pictures, books, maps and personal mementoes strongly evoking the career and wide-ranging interests of this great statesman.
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Boughton Monchelsea Place – Near Maidstone
Boughton Monchelsea Place is an Elizabethan stone-built manor house. It stands in its own estate of 165 acres which includes walled gardens, a private deer park with lake, and woodland. The house is reached by a gravelled 1km drive which winds through private woodland before sweeping round to the house.
Chiddingstone Castle – Near Edenbridge
Chiddingstone Castle, a squire's home with Tudor roots, hidden in lovely unspoiled Wealden countryside yet only 35 miles from London, was once the seat of the Streatfeilds, and has retained an intimate, timeless appeal through all changes.
Chiddingstone Castle – Near Edenbridge
Chiddingstone Castle, a squire's home with Tudor roots, hidden in lovely unspoiled Wealden countryside yet only 35 miles from London, was once the seat of the Streatfeilds, and has retained an intimate, timeless appeal through all changes.
Cobham Hall - Cobham
Cobham Hall, a late Elizabethan and eighteenth century mansion, with later interior features by James Wyatt, Inigo Jones and the Adam brothers, set in 150 acres of grounds landscaped by Humphrey Repton. For approximately 200 years until the 1950s the seat of the Earls of Darnley. Since 1962 a girls boarding school, and open to the public in the Easter and summer holidays. It has been described as one of the largest, finest and most important houses in Kent.
Finchcocks - two miles from the village of Goudhurst
Finchcocks is a beautiful Georgian manor set in the heart of the Kent countryside. It is home to the Richard Burnett collection of historical keyboard instruments - more than a hundred instruments are housed here, many in full playing condition.
Knole - Sevenoaks
One of the great treasure houses of England, set in a magnificent deer park. The original 15th-century house was enlarged and embellished in 1603 by the 1st Earl of Dorset, one of Queen Elizabeth’s favourites, and has remained unaltered ever since – a rare survival.
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Ightham Mote – ivy Hatch, Ightam
A superb moated manor house, nestling in a sunken valley and dating from 1330. The main features of the house span many centuries and include the Great Hall, Old Chapel, crypt, Tudor chapel with painted ceiling, drawing room with Jacobean fireplace, frieze and 18th-century wallpaper, and billiards room.
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Smallhythe Place - Smallhythe, Tenterden Delightful half-timbered 700 year old home of Ellen Terry, Queen of Victorian theatre. Unique costume display from Sir Henry Irving's LyceumTheatre productions with Dame Ellen, plus personal memorabilia. Magical 500 year old barn, celebrating its 75th anniversary of being converted into a theatre, in which many great names have performed. Orchard and field of daffodis.
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