Downe Court was built in 1690 on the site of an earlier manor house, which was probably surrounded by a moat. English Heritage has placed it on its register of buildings at risk because it is ‘starting to show the effects of long term neglect’.

 

According to the author Coxe, the house is heavily haunted. Apparitions include: a ‘wet and bedraggled’ girl that sobs and was said to have drowned in the moat; a severed arm; and an old man. Coxe provides a copy of a photograph that was taken by a former employee and said to show eleven ghosts. Groaning and footsteps have also been reported.