(TR 100550) Deanery Farm (NAT) (1) Little now remains of the moat which once enclosed the site of the Deanery but a narrow waterway on the east and north sides still flows and is fed by a small stream. Sections of an old flint wall indicate the south-eastern limit of the medieval buildings and the moat must have been outside this. The south-western arm of the moat then continued on between the old approach road on the one side and the group of buildings on the other side. In 1675 Dr John Bargrave in an Estate Survey mentioned that the moat was dry and the bridge across it broken. He also remembered that when he was a boy the moat was full of trout. (2) The Deanery (TR 10065508 - sited from plan with Auth 2) Grade II*. Interior features of early C14 and late C14 but exterior C18. The north-west front is dated 1745. (3) [For full description see list]. 'The Deanery' is listed in the county checklist of moated sites in Kent - December 1979. (4) General listing. (5)

Description from record TR 15 NW 1268:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 CHARTHAM BOLTS HILL
The Deanery TR 1055 29/227 30.1.67.
II* GV
2. Interior features of early C14 and late C14 but exterior C18. The north-west front is dated 1745. Two storeys red brick. Tiled roof in three hips. Parapet. Stringcourse. Seven sashes with glazing bars intact. Doorcase with moulded architrave surround with flat hood over and door of six fielded panels. Rainwater head inscribed "1745 L ". Modern bay of 3 windows on the ground floor. Modern AE additions to the north-east. Of the south-east front, the centre portion, which is of one storey only, is contemporary. It has 2 Venetian windows and between them, a wide porch with coupled fluted columns, and a doorcase containing double doors of six moulded panels. On each side is a modern gabled portion of two storeys and attics in the place of the original projecting wings which were demolished in the early C20. The interior contains the roof and three walls of the Great Hall built by Prior Henry of Eastry in 1303. The roof form is of paired rafters with two collars, the lower one being supported by raking struts. Two crownposts of the solar built by Prior Chillenden in 1394 remain. Frescos survive at the east end of the hall. There are also a Jacobean fireplace with carved and panelled overmantel, an C18 staircase with 3 turned balusters to each step and C18 Adam style marble fireplace and panelled doors. This was before the reformation a country residence of the Priors of Christ Church Priory Canterbury. After the Reformation the Deans of Canterbury used it as a country residence. In C17 it was sold to a Leghorn merchant Anthony Lefroy.
Listing NGR: TR1011355077

<1> OS 1:10000 1975 (OS Card Reference). SKE48160.

<2> Arch Cant 89 1974 169-182 plan (MJ Sparks and EW Parkin) (OS Card Reference). SKE35973.

<3> DOE (HHR) Dist of City of Canterbury Kent March 1980 65 (OS Card Reference). SKE40229.

<4> Moated Sites Res Gp 6 1979 46 (CJ Bond) (OS Card Reference). SKE47251.

<5> Arch Cant 93 1977 221 (T Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE36146.

<6> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<7> Historic England, Archive of documents (Archive). SKE56368.