The house dates back to circa 1600.^[1] In 1807 the house and estates were acquired for £76,000 from the trustees of Thomas Allday Kerrison by John Barwell Cator^[2] (nephew of John Cator), who became High Sheriff of Kent in 1818. It then passed down the Cator family.^[3]

After a fire in 1819, Cator commissioned architect George Smith to rebuild the hall.^[2] After another serious fire in December 1882, the house was substantially rebuilt to a design by Ewan Christian (completed in 1889),^[2] and then used as a Red Cross auxiliary hospital during the two World Wars and subsequently as an Agricultural Training College until it was demolished in 1971.^[4] The house was rebuilt in 2004 and is now in the ownership of Henry Cator.^[5]

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