Historic Buildings in Kent

A Victorian cross in Celtic style marks the traditional site of St Augustine's landing in AD 597. Augustine and his supporters supposedly paused here to say mass before travelling on to Canterbury.
Cottington Road, Cliffs End, Cliffs End, Kent, England

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Heritage Highlight: The cross marks a significant point in the history of Britain.

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The clock tower is all that remains of the medieval church of St George the Martyr. The church is best known as the place where the Canterbury native, playwright Christopher Marlowe was baptised on 26 February 1564.
High Street, Canterbury, Kent, England

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Heritage Highlight: The church where Christopher Marlowe was baptised.

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St John the Baptist Hospital is the oldest almshouse in England (though there are others of a similar date in Winchester). The almshouse was established in 1085 by Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, as a residence for needy 30 men and an equal number of women. The main entrance is through a beautiful timber-framed gatehouse off Northgate.
Northgate, Canterbury, Kent, England, CT1 1BG

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Heritage Highlight: The oldest almshouse in England

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St John's Commandery was a medieval chapel that was converted into a farm building during the 16th century. The Commandery features a striking timber roof with an ornamental plaster ceiling.
Swingfield, Dover, Kent, England, CT15 7HG

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St Leonard's Tower is the very well preserved remains of a Norman tower keep. The keep was constructed around 1080, possibly by Gundulf, the Bishop of Rochester at that time. The tower takes its name from the fact that a church dedicated to St Leonard used to stand nearby.
St Leonard's Street, West Malling, Kent, England, ME19 6PD

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An unassuming house dating to the 13th century, once owned by the Knights Templar. When it was built the manor stood in farmland. The farmland has long gone, swallowed up by the expanding urban swell of Rochester, but the house retains a large garden with tall trees to keep the modern world at bay.
Knight Road, Strood, Rochester, Kent, England, ME2 2AH

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval wall paintings in the hall

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The historic springs at Tunbridge Wells owe much to a self-indulgent young nobleman. In 1606 Dudley, Lord North was visiting friends at the Abergavenny Estate in Eridge. He was headed back to London after a night of heavy drinking, feeling a little the worse for wear, when he noticed reddish water seeping from the ground.
The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, TN2 5TN

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At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the threat of French invasion on the south coast of England was very real. The government put into place a comprehensive set of coastal defences to counter that threat. One of the most ambitious of these was the development of the Western Heights above Dover which together make up the largest set of Napoleonic defences in Britain.
Dover, Kent, England

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Heritage Highlight: The Grand Shaft boasts the only known example of a triple spiral staircase in England.

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Willesborough Windmill is a 'smock' mill built in 1869, beside a small miller's house. The mill used patent shutters instead of sails to turn four millstones, with auxiliary power provided by a steam engine, later an oil engine, and finally by electricity. Visitors can grind their own flour to take away, and children receive a Miller's Certificate.
Mill Lane, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, England, TN24 0QG

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