MOTE PARK 1. 5278 Mote House TQ 75 SE 11/145 30.7.5l. II* GV 2. A large square mansion built for the Earl of Romney between 1793 and 1801. Architect Daniel Alexander. 3 storeys and basement stone faced. The north front is of white brick. Slate roof. The north front has 9 windows. Cornice and parapet. It consists of a centre and 2 projecting wings. The centre has segmental headed windows on the ground floor and recessed panels above them. The wings each have a lunette window on the 2nd floor and a curved bay of 3 windows each on the ground and 1st floor projecting furter than the wings with a cornice and parapet over which continues across the centre portion as a stringcourse Glazing bars intact. The south front, which is the principal front facing the park, has 11 windows. Cornice and parapet. Consists of a centre and 2 projecting wings. Breaking further fovward than the projection of the latter are curved bays of 3 windows each on the ground and lst floors with cornice and parapet over continued across the centre as a stringcourse. Lunette windows on the 2nd floor of each wing. Between the wings is a hexastyle Ionic portico with dentilled cornice. Glazing bars intact. The west or entrance front has 7 windows and a porch with Tuscan columns, closed in in the£mid C19. George III was entertained at the house in 1799 when he attended a review of Volunteers held in the Park by Lord Romney as Lord Lieutenant of Kent. The interior has been altered considerably. 1 ground floor room still has a decorated cornice dating from the time of building. The library has an C18 marble fireplace with swags and side scrolls and the entrance hall has a fireplace circa 1800. Group value with Stables to Mote House. Listing NGR: TQ7838355024