Kevington Hall
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Kevington Hall
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 24 Mar 2011
Built in 1767-9 for Herman Behrens, a wealthy merchant trader from Amsterdam, based in London. The designer was Sir Robert Taylor. It remained in the Behrens (later Berens) family, seeing some additional building, until the Second World War when it was requisitioned by the government to house Canadian troops. After the war, it was bought by Kent County Council and used as a primary school until the 1980s. In 1987 it was sold into private hands, and the owners have been working on its restoration. It is grade II* listed - for listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359374 (which still shows it as a school).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.388591
Longitude
0.124599