This is now in a wooded area of the park still owned by the Darnley family. Cobham Hall is an outstandingly beautiful red brick mansion dating from 1584, which demonstrates an exciting combination of Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolean and 18th Century styles. The current Hall itself consists of two Tudor wings built in. You'll find lots of places open now - over 40 houses, 135 gardens and parks, and hundreds of coastal and countryside sites. C Sloane, Map of Cobham Hall Park, 1758 (Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone) It includes work by Inigo Jones, Wyatt and the Adam Brothers. D Stroud, Humphry Repton (1962), pp 52-3 Late C18 and early C19 ornamental gardens and pleasure grounds laid out by Humphry Repton and, later, his sons, partly on the site of C17 terraces, with additional mid C19 exotic tree planting and early C20 formal features by the designer William Goldring, set within a park of probably C16 origin which contains a late C17 avenue and an C18 mausoleum by James Wyatt.HISTORIC DEVELOPMENTThe manor of Cobham was granted to William de Cobham in 1208, his elder son being created Baron Cobham in 1313. J Speed, Map of Kent, 1611 West of Halfpence Lane is Ashenbank Wood, laid out with a network of paths and planted with trees of mixed ages and containing, at its centre, The Mount (listed grade II). more. Some 270m north-east of the bastion, a stone vertical and a brick base survive from Repton's seat. The Darnleys remained in occupation, making more additions and modifications to the house and gardens.

Nestled in 150 acres of Grade II listed parkland Cobham Hall dates back to 1208 when the original Manor was granted by the King to the De Cobham family. J Newman, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald (1969), pp 223-9 Located adjacent to the A2 midway between Rochester and Gravesend. from the outside, the interior is simply not worth visiting.

Formal terraces lie to the immediate north and south of the Hall while the pleasure grounds extend southwards, north-eastwards, and northwards over Windmill Hill.The south, garden front opens onto a 50m deep, west to east terrace which is laid to gravelled walks and lawns and bisected by a north to south axial walk with a central stone fountain basin. Some 270m north-east of the bastion, a stone vertical and a brick base survive from Repton's seat. The lawns and gardens around the school are effectively maintained by 3 grounds staff.

King's Cross, York Road, London. Adjacent to the east end of the terrace is Lady Darnley's Garden, a roughly rectangular lawn with trees and with, along the south side above a further C17 terrace bank, a C19 iron-framed rose pergola. The manor of Cobham was largely an agricultural estate in the C14 although Speed's map of 1611 shows Cobham within a park pale and Norton's 1641 survey refers to the eastern Deer Park as 'The Ould Park'. The ninth Earl died in 1955 and in 1959 the Land Fund purchased the Hall and some of the surrounding land, including the gardens and pleasure grounds. An additional Services block was also added in 18th Century. OS 25" to 1 mile: 3rd edition published 1909 The wooded slopes of the North Downs lie beyond the site to the south. Archaeological salvage of a First World War motor launch undertaken by Museum of London Archaeology and volunteers on 4 June 2015 at B.J.

There are a few interesting features, including the fireplaces (though these have been moved from their original locations, something that the guide failed to make clear), numerous portraits of unimportant 19th and 20th century aristocrats and two copies of old masters that are truly awful. The Garden, (14 January 1882), pp 19-22 The fourth Earl also employed Humphry Repton in 1790, and later his two sons, to remodel the grounds and the exterior of the house, Repton producing a Red Book for Cobham in 1790. East of the path, towards the summit of Windmill Hill, a few mature Wellingtonias survive from the pinetum planted in the mid C19. It is H-shaped in plan, with its principal entrance on the north front and is built in red brick with a stone cornice and a hipped, slate roof. The site of Charles Dickens' chalet, removed in 1961, lies some 70m south-west of Repton's seat.PARK North-west of the main entrance, and to the south-west either side of the avenue, the park consists of largely open grassland with a few isolated trees. See website for dates or call 01474 823371. The park surrounds Cobham Hall although the main surviving area of parkland lies to the west in the West Park. The grounds.