House surveys in Kent

Kent's housing ranges from medieval timber-framed hall houses and weatherboarded cottages to Victorian seaside terraces, naval and dockyard housing in the Medway towns, and large modern estates around Ashford, Dartford and Ebbsfleet. Local materials include Kentish ragstone, flint, red brick, clay tile hanging and white-painted weatherboarding. Geology is varied: chalk on the North Downs and Thanet, where solution features and old dene holes occur, Gault and Weald clays that shrink and swell, Hastings Beds sandstone around Tunbridge Wells, and flood plains along the Medway, Stour and Thames estuary.