What lies beneath
BEHIND imposing Georgian façades, the grand interiors of two of Kent’s most important country houses provide a fascinating insight into the lives and times of those who built, bought, altered and extended these historic buildings in the course of the past 600 years or more.
Savills (020–7409 5945) and Strutt & Parker (07765 231152) are joint agents in the sale, at a guide price of £5 million, of Grade I-listed Milgate House near Bearsted, Kent, described in Hasted’s History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (1798) as ‘an eminent seat, pleasantly situated and wellcloathed with trees, which was formerly esteemed a manor, though it has long since lost the reputation of ever having been one’.
The documented history of Milgate can
