The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5281 THE LEAS FOLKESTONE The Manor House TR 23 NW 10/201 II 2 Circa 1900. Built for the Earl of Radnor. 2 storeys attics and basement red brick. Green slate roof. Right side Scottish baronial turret with conical roof, Central gable with bargeboards and pendant. 2 pedimented gables. Irregular mullioned and transomed windows and porch approached up a flight of stairs with 4 round-headed arches ant Tuscan columns. The rear elevation has an attic storey which pendant applied timber framing with plaster infill. 2 projecting gables with pendant and finial. 1 gablet and 1 3-light pedimented gable. Right side crow-stepped gable. Left side gable has a 2 storey projecting bay with balustrading above. 5 mullioned and transomed casements in all. Left side conservatory. '
Listing NGR: TR2039935517


The house was used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital run by Kent/24, with 108 beds form October 1919 to January 1919.

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.