LAMBERHURST CHURCH ROAD TQ 63 NE (south side) 3/134 Court Lodge, stable yard and walled gardens 20.10.54 GV II House, now flats, with courtyard and walled gardens. C17 core, enlarged c.1710, mid C18 and mid C19. Red brick, extended and cased with sandstone with plain tiled and slate roofs. The main elevation is that to south to the park, of three storeys with parapet and projecting two bay wings at left and at right with separately hipped roofs and with stacks to centre, to centre left and centre right. Regular fenestration of seven glazing bar sashes on each floor, some with glazing bars missing, all with keyed surrounds, those to centre on first and second floors round headed. Projecting from and returned to this front a low stone wall with regular buttress piers enclosing the garden terrace. Entrance front to left with three storeys of 5 bays, the ground floor built out and with canted porch with panelled doors. Right return (leading to the church) with irregular 5 bay frontage and with 2 storey canted bay, round headed stair window and half glazed door in pilastered surround with flat hood on brackets and semi-circular fanlight. Rear elevation of four separate blocks, only the right hand, towards the entrance front, of stone, the centre two with steeper pitched slate covered roofs. Adjoining this elevation is the stable yard with C18 coachhouse and outbuildings. Two walled gardens adjoin to the north east, with red brick walls about 6 feet in height, buttressed and ramped at various points and with boarded gates and attached sheds and outbuildings, enclosing areas of about 20 by 35 metres in the more southerly, and 40 by 40 metres in the northern enclosure. The house became the seat of the Morland family, Lords of the Manor of Lamberhurst, mid C18, and one of the principal seats in the parish (with Scotney and Bayham Abbey), Thomas Morland (d.1784) largely creating its present character. See Hasted, vol.V and Igglesden, vol.XVII. Listing NGR: TQ6781936707