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Hollingbourne House is a Grade II listed Georgian country house situated on the summit of Hollingbourne Hill near the village of Hollingbourne, in Kent, England. The existing house was designed by architect Charles Beazley in 1799 for Baldwin Duppa Duppa (Hancorn), replacing an earlier residence known as Hollingbourne Place, built in 1719 by his relative Baldwin Duppa.

During the 17th century, the estate was known as the Manor of Hollingbourne Hill. Edward Hasted records in his book ‘The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent‘ that the land previously bore the name Eyotts. ^[1]

The present house comprises a two-storey Neoclassical principal façade constructed in light buff brick beneath a slate roof. A central pediment section of the facade, advances from the main frontage in two architectural stages. A further domestic wing and former coach house wing are situated around a rear courtyard.

• Sir Martin Barnham (1548–1610) — Major Kent landowner and Sheriff of Kent (1598). Barnham resided at the Hollingbourne Parsonage (also described as Hollingbourne Manor) at the foot of the hill, later building a new mansion at the summit in 1609, just one year prior to his death. ^[2]
• Francis Barnham (1576–1646) — Member of Parliament (1604–1646) and Parliamentary supporter during the English Civil War. He inherited a mansion on Hollingbourne Hill built by his father Sir Martin Barnham. Through his marriage he also came into possession of Boughton Monchelsea Place while retaining the property on Hollingbourne Hill.
• Sir Gabriel Livesey (c.1568–1622) — High Sheriff of Kent and prominent landowner at Hollingbourne Hill; father of Sir Michael Livesey.
• Sir Michael Livesey (1611–1665) — Puritan activist, MP, and signatory to the death warrant of King Charles I. Livesey fled to the Low Countries at the Restoration, dying in exile.
• Sir John Haywood (1591–1636) — Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Kent (1623). Haywood married Anne Sondes, widow of Gabriel Livesey and father of Sir Michael Livesey. He subsequently acquired the Manor of Hollingbourne Hill in his own name.

• Sir Cheney Culpeper (1601–1663) — Politician of the Culpeper family active during the Crown-Parliament disputes. Following financial troubles he passed the property away to Henry Pelham in 1647. ^[1]

• Henry Pelham of Brocklesby (fl.1640s) — Lawyer and briefly Speaker of the House of Commons (1647).The property remained in the Pelham family until being sold by Charles Pelham to Baldwin Duppa in 1709.^[1]

• Baldwin Duppa (1650–1737) — Storekeeper of Chatham Dockyard, initiating the family’s long connection to Hollingbourne Hill.^[1]
• Baldwin Duppa (1682–1764) — Followed in his father’s footsteps as Storekeeper of Chatham, rebuilds the original house in 1717. ^[1] He is commemorated by a memorial in All Saints Church, Hollingbourne].

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