TQ 95 NE EASTLING SCHOOL LANE (south side) 4/19 Eastling 27.8.52 Manor GV II* House. C14 and 1616. Timber framed and exposed close-studding with plaster infill, part rendered, part tile hung, on red brick base with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic with half-hipped roof and gablets. 3 hipped dormers and stacks to left and centre right. Two 3 light transomed windows, 1 single light and one 5 light on first floor, and two 5-light transomed windows with hipped hoods and single light on ground floor. All dormers and windows with central arched transoms. Two storey hipped and projecting porch to centre with C20 glass outer doors and multi-panelled inner door. Right return front: tile hung with oriel windows to each floor, with rear wing of close- studding on red brick base and C20 canted bay window. Interior: rear wing partial survival of C14 or C13 aisled hall with scissor-truss roof. Present main range added 1616 with contemporary cellars, wainscot panelling and doors and turned baluster screen to service area. Open well staircase of 3 storeys with turned balusters, bell pendants and moulded hand- rail. Large oak fireplace with carved coupled baluster pilasters with scrolled and foliated frieze and cornice-mantel. Known originally as Gregories, the wing of 1616 added by a Mr Parmiter (see Hasted, vol. VI p422; also BOE KENT II, 1983, p307). Listing NGR: TQ9626356518