Where to Photograph Historic Houses in Kent

We are attempting to list all places where photographers can photograph Historic Houses within England. This is the start of a list that will both grow over time and hopefully we will be able to add more columns or information.

Due to the large number of houses throughout England the list has been split into both county pages as well as alphabetically. To see a full list of the counties available take a look at our Historic Houses Section. You may also like to take a look at our Garden Section, where you will find more links and some houses that may have been overlooked here. There are other sections under Heritage that will also contain large historic properties, such as Castles, Abbey's and Living History.

Where the names in the first column is hyperlinked this links to a Location page with more information on this site and over time more of these will be added, we will be delighted if some of you would like to also produce location pages.

Codes: NT = National Trust , EH = English Heritage , HHA = Historic Houses Association ,
Wiki = Wikipedia

Historic House	Near	County	NGR	Website Link	Notes
Allington Castle		Kent		Wiki
Beachborough Manor		Kent		Wiki
Belmont	Faversham	Kent	Map	Belmont HHA	A neo classical brick country house.
Betteshanger		Kent		Wiki
Boughton Monchelsea Place	Maidstone	Kent	Map	Boughton Monchelsea Place
Bradbourne House	East Malling	Kent		Wiki
Centuries	Hythe	Kent		Wiki
Chartwell	Westerham	Kent	Map	Chartwell NT Wiki	Family home and garden of Sir Winston Churchill
Chevening		Kent		Wiki
Chiddingstone Castle	Edenbridge	Kent	Map	Chiddingstone Castle HHA Wiki	A stone castle, which was formerly a brick carolean house.
Cobham Hall	Cobham	Kent	Map	Cobham Hall HHA Wiki	Red brick mansion in Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolean & 18thC styles.
Danson House	Bexleyheath	Kent	Map	Danson House HHA	Built c 1766
Dorton House		Kent		Wiki
Down House	Downe	Kent	Map	EH	Charles Darwin lived here with his family for 40 years.
Eastwell Park		Kent		Wiki
Emmetts Garden	Sevenoaks	Kent	Map	Emmetts Garden
Finchcocks	Goudhurst	Kent	Map	Finchcocks HHA Wiki	An early Georgian manor house.
Frognal House		Kent		Wiki
Gad's Hill Place		Kent		Wiki	former home of Charles Dickens
Godinton House		Kent		Wiki
Goodnestone Park Gardens	Canterbury	Kent	Map	Goodnestone HHA	Formal terraced gardens surround the house which Jane Austen frequently visited, and overlooks an 18th century parkland.
Grange (The)	Ramsgate	Kent	Map	Grange (The)
Great Comp Garden	Borough Green	Kent	Map	Great Comp Garden
Great Maytham Hall		Kent		Wiki
Groombridge Place Gardens	Tunbridge Wells	Kent	Map	Groombridge Place Gardens Wiki
Hadlow Castle		Kent		Wiki
Hall Place & Gardens	Bexley	Kent	Map	Hall Place HHA	a Grade I listed Tudor mansion built almost 500 years ago
Hever Castle		Kent		HHA Wiki	13thC double moated castle containing a Tudor manor house built by the Boleyn family.
Holcombe Manor		Kent		Wiki
Hole Park	Tunbridge Wells	Kent	Map	Hole Park HHA	14 acre gardens in a parkland with bluebell woods.
Holwood House		Kent		Wiki
Ightham Mote		Kent		NT Wiki	14thC moated manor house
Knole House	Sevenoaks	Kent	Map	Knole NT Wiki	Birthplace of novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West
Leeds Castle		Kent		HHA Wiki	originally the site of a manor for the Saxon royal family.
Lullingstone Castle	Eynsford	Kent	Map	Lullingstone Castle HHA Wiki
Maison Dieu		Kent		EH	13^thC wayside hospital, flint and timberframed building
Mereworth Castle		Kent		Wiki
Mote House & Park		Kent		Wiki
Mount Ephraim Gardens		Kent		HHA	Edwardian gardens, woodland, orchards and large rock garden with pools, Japanese stone lanterns and bridge.
Nurstead Court	Gravesend	Kent	Map	Nurstead Court
Old Soar Manor	Borough Green	Kent	Map	Old Soar Manor EH	A small but complete portion of a stone manor house built c. 1290.
Owletts		Kent		NT	Red-brick Charles II house and garden
Oxon Hoath		Kent		Wiki
Pattyndenne Manor		Kent		Wiki
Penshurst Place and Gardens	Tonbridge	Kent	Map	Wiki EH Penshurst Place	The ancestral home of the Sidney family since 1552, set in Tudor gardens and parkland.
Quebec House	Westerham	Kent	Map	Quebec House NT Wiki	Childhood home of General James Wolfe, victor of the Battle of Quebec (1759)
Quex House & Garden	Birchington	Kent	Map	Quex House	Includes Powell Cotton Museum
Restoration House	Rochester	Kent	Map	Restoration House HHA	A town house, stayed in by Charles II on the eve of the Restoration.
Riverhill House		Kent		HHA	The gardens' date from 1840 when John Rogers, F.R.S and friend of Charles Darwin, bought the property.
Scotney Castle		Kent		NT Wiki	Victorian country house and 14thC ruined castle
Sissinghurst Castle Garden		Kent		NT	Garden in a ruin in a farm, created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Smallhythe Place	Tenterden	Kent	Map	NT Smallhythe Place	Ellen Terry's early 16thC house and cottage gardens
Squerryes Court	Westerham	Kent	Map	Squerryes Court HHA	A symmetrical and typical William and Mary house, built in 1681 and set in 18^thC landscaped gardens.
Stoneacre	Maidstone	Kent	Map	Stoneacre NT Wiki	15thC half-timbered yeoman's house
Temple Manor		Kent		EH	Part of a manor house of the Knights Templar, built in about 1240.
The Hospital of St Thomas	Canterbury	Kent		Wiki
Westenhanger Castle		Kent		HHA	The site of a 14thC fortification with ruins, a reconstructed house, mediaeval barns and a large stone dovecote, 14 acres of meadows, a lawned keep and a dry moat.

This list will continue to grow as we come across new places. REMEMBER if know of somewhere that you feel is a good place please let us know.

By: Tracey Park	Section: Historic Houses	Key:
Page Ref: HH_KEN	Topic: Historic Houses	Last Updated: 06/2009

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