Dent de Lion: Dandelion: Daundelyon: Dandelion: Garlinge

• Birchington, Kent.
• Scheduled Monument.
• Monument Number – 469147
• Grade II Listed Building.
• Medieval Fortified Manor House.

Gatehouse, defended by round gun ports and loops. Square with square turrets. Roughly east-west aligned. The gatehouse is faced with horizontal bands of coursed, squared, knapped flint and red and yellow brick. The site is approached from the south. The whole site was enclosed by a wall.

Had a coat of arms over the arch representing the Daundeleon family. The family were descendants of Aybeuare, one of the men who accompanied William the Conqueror to England.

Was used as a coffee house and tavern. A breakfast was held every Wednesday and which at one time was the most popular place to be ‘seen’ in Thanet.

Believed that smuggled goods were kept on the site. Birchington was a favourite place for smugglers.

Finds at the site include Roman artefacts.

1230                        Dene Chapel built by Henry de Sandwich.

1248                       Held by Sir Henry de Sandwich, son of Simon de Sandwich.

1272-1307             Held by the Dundeleon/Daundelynn family during the reign of Edward I.

*                               When Henry de Sandwich died, without issue, it went to his wife, Joan, daughter of Sir William de Auberville. She had a daughter, also named Julianna.

1310                        William de Leybourne died, the site went to his granddaughter, Julianna de Laybourne, known as the “Infanta of Kent”.

1362                       Julianna de Laybourne granted her Manor of Dene, on the Isle of Thanet to the Abbot and Bretheran of St. Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury.

1379                       Held by William Daundelynn.

1399-1413             Held by John Dandelyon, who had a son, also called John (2).

1440                       Fortified due to the threat of a Danish invasion.

1445                      John Dandelyon (2) died, the last of the male heirs, and his daughter inherited the site. She had married a man called Pettit and they held the site.

15^th C                     Gatehouse.

*                              John Pettit died, and his son inherited.

1661                       Captain John Pettit died and left it to his 5 sons. They sold it to Henry Fox, Lord Holland.

*                              Henry Fox, Lord Holland conveyed the property to the Honourable Charles James Fox, his second son.

*                              James Fox left it in his will to John Powell esq.

*                              John Powell died without issue and it passed to his sister, wife of William Roberts Esq.

1703                       A large room was discovered at the gatehouse which contained urns filled with earth and glass.

1736                      The old mansion was still standing, and the windows were described as containing the crest of the Dandyleon and Pettit families, quartered.

1783                       Another underground room was discovered on the other side of the gatehouse.

1830                       Owned by Captain Sir Thomas Staines, RN, KCB.

1832                       Captain Sir Thomas Staines, RN, KCB. Died and it was owned by his widow, Sarah Towney Bargrave.

19^th C                     The house was demolished.

1902                       Found that the subterranean rooms no longer existed.

1847                       Name changed to Dandelion. Henry Perry Cotton was the farmer who held the site.

1867                       Mrs. Mary Solly was the farmer who held the site.

1881                       Farmer Richard J. Sankey held the site, now known as Dent de Lion Farm.

1891                       Farmer Alfred Padley held Dent de Lion Farm

1963                        Field Investigation.

1987                        Scheduled.

1998                        Scheduled.

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