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Setting the SCENE

Dating from the 1680s, Squerryes Court is the epitome of a classic Queen Anne country house. Situated on the edge of the pretty Kent village of Westerham, on a plateau carved out of a gentle incline, the elegantly proportioned red-brick property looks out over a lake and is surrounded by landscaped gardens, leafy woods and the rolling hills of the North Downs in the distance.

Bought in 1731 by John Warde from his friend William Villiers, the 3rd Earl of Jersey, Squerryes Court

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