The house sits on a south facing slope giving views across the extensive deer park and the Weald beyond.

Prior to the sixteenth century, the manor of Boughton Monchelsea passed by marriage or sale through the ownership of several families of minor gentry.

[1] The portion of the manor of which the Boughton Monchelsea Place estate was part passed to Joan de Shelving's husband John Brampton.

[2] Following Rudston's involvement in Wyatt's rebellion against Mary I, he was fortunate to be reprieved from a death sentence, though his estate was confiscated by the Crown.

[1] His son Francis predeceased him and, on his death around 1685, the estate was inherited by his daughter Philadelphia Barnham, wife of Thomas Rider.

To the south-west of the house, is a second, larger courtyard flanked on its west side by a large barn and on its north and south by single storey return wings.

The centre of the east range features a two-storey porch with galleted stonework on the upper level.

On the south façade, the ground floor windows are taller with a number being two- and three-lighted and stone framed.

A single-storey extension runs at a right angle to the south end of the east side, probably built in the 16th century.

The two-storey extension to the east side of the north end is lower than the main barn with a half-hipped roof.

[6] The house sits in grounds of approximately 40 hectares (99 acres) on a south-facing escarpment giving views south and east across the Weald.

The formal entrance is north-west of the house, which is approached through woodland along a drive of approximately 850 metres (930 yd).

These are remnants of a 16th-century formal garden scheme which was removed and replaced by informal landscaping during the third Thomas Rider's tenure.

[2] The estate is private property and is not usually open to the public, but the Greensand Way long-distance walk crosses the parkland east–west to the north of the house.