2-982-053 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Leaves from a Sketch-Book - Bits of Kent: Franks, 1876. 'A little way from this village [Kirby], just beyond the bridge over the lovely river, rises a fine old Elizabethan mansion, a stately pile of red brick with stone dressings, in a fair walled pleasaunce of smooth lawns and terrace-paths. It is called 'Franks,' and was built, as I have read, before the year 1594, by a certain Alderman of London, the Worshipful Launcelot Bathurst...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.