Franks Hall

Franks Hall in Horton Kirby, Kent, (grid reference TQ 555 677) is a large Elizabethan country house, completed in 1591.

A former manor house had been built on the opposite bank of the River Darent in 1220 by the Frankish family.

She died in 1748 and the house was left to her daughter Susan, and via her to her husband John Tasker, a solicitor from Dartford.

This building was largely destroyed by incendiary bombs during the Second World War and only the walls remain now.

The Apsleys only lived in Franks Hall for a few months and it then stood empty for about ten years.

[3] The house was purchased by Michael Berry, who lived in it until 1980 when it was sold to Findlay Publications Ltd who restored it for use as their headquarters.

Franks Hall pictured in Francis Orpen Morris 's County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1867)