Knowlton Court

Knowlton Court is a Grade I listed manor house near Goodnestone, Kent, England that dates back to the Elizabethan period.

[2] The Knowlton estate is recorded in the Domesday Book, during which time it belonged to Bishop Odo of Bayeux, the half-brother of William the Conqueror.

[3] During the late 17th century, Knowlton Court was home to the Royalist lieutenant-general Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, born in 1613.

[4] [5] After heading a failed Royalist rising in Kent in May 1648, Sir Thomas was taken prisoner near Bury St Edmunds and committed to the Tower – and Knowlton Court was ransacked.

Knowlton Court estate remained the property of Admiral Sir John Narborough during the late 17th century.