TQ6059-6159 WROTHAM C.P. HIGH STREET 7/28 (south side) 1.8.52 Wrotham Place GV II* House. Circa 1590 with alterations of C19. South front. Red brick on red brick plinth. Rendered dressings on ground-floor, quoins and 1st floor dressings of ashlar. Band of diagonally inserted bricks. Parapet, added during C19, to plain tiled roof. 4 stacks (1 triple and 1 single) it right-hand end, 2 off-ridge in centre, 1 stan-shaped moulded brick stack off-ridge at left-hand end. 1 double-stack with projecting breast on front, attached to left of central gabled frontispiece. 2 dormers, 1 at each end of roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 storeys to frontispiece. 2 large windows at mid-storey level to right of frontispiece. Large 6-light mullioned window to right, 8 light transom and mullioned window to left, with pointed-arched doorway with boarded and ribbed door below to left. Tall 3-centred arch on ground-floor of frontispiece with tall wooden-mullioned window behind and curious recess partly blocked by right-hand support of arch. Another recess in base of chimney-breast to left. 10-light transom and mullion window on first-floor of frontispiece, 3-light mullion window on 2nd floor, both over arch. C19 block to left. Red and blue brick with ashlar quoins and dressings. Plain tiled roof with bracketted gutters and doubled west-end stack. L-shaped. Parapet copings to gables, kneelers only on gable to east. South gable part stepped, part pitched. Ashlar bands over brick plinth, over ground-floor and at cornice-level. 2 storeys; 1 window range to each face. Heavily moulded drip-stones over very large transom and mullion windows on ground-floor to right. 1 blocked window in attic of south gable. North front. Red brick on red brick plinth. Rendered dressings on ground-floor, quoins and first-floor dressings of ashlar. Diapon patterning of grey bricks between ground and 1st floors. Parapet to plain tiled roof with 2 dormers, left and right of centre. 3 storeys; 5 window front, transom and mullion windows with metal casements. Projecting 3-storey gabled square bays in 1st, 3rd and 5th bays, that to right projecting further with entrance below. Panelled top glazed doors in arched and moulded surrounds. Stone coat-of-arms above, C20. Small courtyard to right of block formed by Cl9 extensions. 1-storey red brick extension with plain tiled roof, in line with main, older, stable building to north. The pair joined by brick arch. Interior. Hall: ribbed ceiling. Cornice with mottoes, early C20. East drawing room: large stone fireplace with 4-centred arch and rose and strap-work decoration. 2 first-floor panelled rooms, one with pilaster decoration, probably Edwardian. Listing NGR: TQ6116059081