Self Portrait With Camera #2
Today's image was taken on the road out of Aylesford towards the Friars. The house shown in the convex traffic mirror ( I didn't know that's what they are called until I looked it up) is named The Cedars - below is the only description I could find online:
House. Circa 1800. Stuccoed with incised line. Parapet with band to
hipped tiled roof with stacks behind ridge. 2 storeys; regular 4-window facade, glazing bar sashes. Central panelled door with panelled reveals in pilastered doorcase with dentilled entablature supported on fluted brackets. Trellised verandah to rear. Formerly the Dower House of the Friars. Buttressed red brick wall to north c.7 feet high and 100 yards long. (Not a clue what any of this means!)
The house is from the Georgian period and the front of it has a large lawn sweeping down to the River Medway with an expansive weeping willow tree in the foreground (possibly a better view than round the back!).
I remember once being invited there with my family as kid back in the 70's - it felt a bit like the local serfs being indulged by the Lord of the manor for a day!
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