Pattyndenne Manor is a manor house

Manor house

A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

 located near to the village of Goudhurst

Goudhurst

Goudhurst is a village in Kent on the Weald, about south of Maidstone.It stands on a crossroads , where there is a large village pond. It is also in the Cranbrook School catchment area....

, Kent

Kent

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This timber framed

Timber framing

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 house was built by the Pattyndenn family around 1480, it was a home and a place to hold the Manor court

Manor court

The manor court was the lowest court of law in England . It dealt with matters over which the Lord of the Manor had jurisdiction. Its powers extended only to those living in the manor or who held land at the manor-Basic functions:Each Manor has its own laws listed in a document called the Custamal...

 proceedings. In the 16th century it was sold to Sir Maurice Berkeley, son of Lord Berkeley

Lord Berkeley

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 and a Standard-bearer

Standard-bearer

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 to Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

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, Mary Tudor

Mary I of England

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 and Elizabeth I

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The house is built in the local style known as Wealden

Wealden hall house

The Wealden hall house is a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed yeoman's house traditional in the south east of England. It is most common in Kent and the east of Sussex but has also been built elsewhere...

, in which parts of the upper storey and sides project as jetties, but the central part, has no jetties and thus gives the appearance of being recessed. The central part contains the hall, which would originally have been open to the roof. At Pattydenne
the upper storey rests on four moulded and chamfered corner posts and the jetties project from all four sides. The layout of the house remains largely unchanged, except for the addition of a tiny kitchen wing in around 1600. In 1890 a small extension was added to accommodate a new staircase.