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The Moat, or Moat House, is a splendid large manor house begun in Georgian times and surrounded, as the name suggests, by water.

Virginia creeper has now spread to every inch of stonework on the 18th-century house (centre right). On the skyline, in the gap, are the three-storey lines of Grove House in Rax Lane (right).

In the foreground are cottages, some thatched, while in the distance are some more urban later houses of two and three full storeys.

This view looks west with the Red House (left) in front of and next to Lorne House and West Deyne, the school boarding houses.

In the distance in the centre of this photograph is The King's Arms public house; at this time it was one of the houses of the Maidstone brewers Style & Winch Ltd.

Broughton Castle was built as a fortified manor house by Sir John de Broughton in the 14th century. It was later acquired by William of Wykeham who converted the house into a castle.

Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

Flendyshe House, facing the small green, is an early 17th-century house remodelled in 1807. On the green is the war memorial.

Here we see Aberconwy House some years after photograph 65752 was taken.

A Georgian house called Belle Vue was built at the foot of Newton Road in the 1780s.

The 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene has a massive 16th-century tower with rounded pinnacles, which houses the peal of eight bells.The public house is appropriately named the Eight Bells.A

Randell House was previously called All Saints' Home; it housed young homeless children from London slums until 1937, when it became a house of rest and prayer for ladies.

The four-storey gabled house on the right with the flight of steps is Blagroves House. This is now the oldest surviving house in the town.

Often referred to as 'the Alpine village' because of its sylvan setting at the head of a wooded valley, the cluster of houses known as Hutton Village dates from the mid 19th century, when Mr Thomas

Red Rice House was built about 1844 and was restored in 1933 when two gate-houses were added. It replaced an earlier brick house of about 1740.

The cobbled street passes Oak House, one of the oldest houses in Rye; it dates from the 15th century, and replaced an earlier house that burnt down in 1377.

Sturrick House on the far left, once a temperance hotel, is 16th-century, but the ground floor frontage is 18th-century.

Ingram House (left) is of a similar date, but is much altered. The Red House stands opposite, in ivy-clad brick (right).

The delightful timber- framed house in the centre of the picture is said to date from 1510.

As usual in boarding houses, most of the windows are open for a good airing. This was the headmaster's house until 1975 when a new house was built in the garden facing South Backway.

Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

It was known as Fort House, and Dickens lived there in 1851. Dickens loved this house, and called it his 'airy nest'; it was here that he wrote David Copperfield.

Opposite is the gable of a 19th-century extension to Stone House, a fine 17th-century house.

The symmetry and lack of individuality in the houses to the right of the photograph point to this being a modern 20th-century housing estate.