According to Hasted, Prior Thomas Goldston of Christchurch Canterbury built the Priors apartment and adjoining Chapel, the hall and priors dormitory and everything else except a lodge and two barns, during the reign of Henry VII. At the Dissolution the estate passed to Thomas Colepepper, and then by Thomas Cranmer who converted to the Archbishop’s Palace, built the gatehouse in 1552. During the Civil War everything was destroyed except for the gatehouse and offices each side, parts of which survive today as Bekesbourne House. The remains of the Palace are in the gardens around the house and have been partly excavated in 1976-7 by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. The visible remains in the scheduled area are confined to the triangular parcel on W side of site. These consist of a length of about 50’ of brick drainage tunnel, which was discovered and breached in three places by a bulldozer in the mid 1970s and excavated by C.A.T. There are now no surface indications of the excavation with produced evidence of a fine medieval building underlying the palace levels and a major drain and several brick wall foundations associated with the palace. Area remains largely private garden. A number of fruit trees have been planted in vicinity of area of excavations, of which there is now no surface trace.