I enclose a copy of a photograph of the major part of St Paul's Cray Hill, built around the 1450s, and in its time, was one of the most important houses in Kent.

It was set at the top of Chapmans Lane, which begins at The Bull public house in St Paul's Cray.

I lived there in the 1940s and 1950s when only a wing of the main building was remaining.

I have revisited it and was astonished and appalled to find it had been demolished, with not so much as a brick remaining.

Would any of your readers be able to help me to discover its early history?

And perhaps someone could explain how a house of such distinction could simply disappear, leaving not a trace behind.

C G Marshall Woodhill Park Pembury