Priest's House, Smallhythe, Tenterden, Kent

This house was built in the late 15th century or early 16th century. It was possibly rebuilt after a disastrous fire of 1514 when the adjoining Church of St John and a number of houses in the village were rebuilt. It is thought that Sir Robert Brygantyne lived and worked in this house before he became Clerk of Ships to Henry VII and Henry VIII from 1495-1523, and supervised, among other ships, the design and construction of the ‘Mary Rose’.

Historic England Archive AA56/00921