Walmer Court ruins, Church Street, Walmer.
Located on private land between today's Walmer Court apartments and the old parish church of the Blessed St Mary, the Old Walmer Court was originally a Norman fortified manor house built by the Auberville family in the 12th century.
 

photo: Harold Wyld

Historians suggest that it was a more-or-less square hall house, which had a first floor and turrets at the corners. On the west side, an external stair would have given access to the first floor. Little remains today apart from some of the flint rubble walls and a fragment of the upper floor, next to the churchyard wall. Both the hall house and the adjacent parish church, were originally surrounded by a moat. Some clearance work on the site in 2008 means that the ruins can now be more easily seen from the road.

For more details and photographs of the ancient Walmer Court (also referred to as Walmer Hall House), see the www.castlefacts.info website.