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| Manor is the girls' boarding house at DCPS. Formerly the junior boarding house, it was transformed in 1999 to take all girl boarders at the school. The building has come a long way since the Henley family took possession of a small manor house during the reign of Richard II. As a result of the flourishing woollen trade, it became one of the great manor houses in Kent and was supposedly visited by Elizabeth I during her stay in Cranbrook.During the Civil War, the House was sequestered and eventually stripped by the locals of everything useful: by the time of George I, all that remained was the Great Hall. The house was originally half-timbered, like Cloth Hall but is now tiled, hung well over 100 years ago. As a boarding house, it catered initially for boys until junior girls arrived in September 1978. Room One, as it was known, was their dwelling place until they transferred as seniors to the Oast. In its recent history as a boarding house, it used the attic dorm for girls but with the boy/girl balance changing and with the need to develop the rest of the school, further change was both necessary and inevitable. | 
The girls enjoy cooking on Monday evenings ...
... and then eating their chocolate brownies!
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The girls have exclusive use of four levels. The basement, affectionately know as The Ref as a consequence of its time as a reference library, is used mostly in the evenings as a games area. The common room, quiet room, computer area, showers and kitchen cover the ground floor. The four senior dorms, Ash Pits, Buckmere, Chad and Hazel share the first floor with the bathroom and the Tutor’s accommodation. The junior dorm, Wilderness, is in the attic together with a further bathroom and shower area and matron’s accommodation. Manor girls are kept relatively busy with a range of sporting, academic, art, music, and computing clubs after school and further activities such as woodwork, jewellery making, cooking and basketball in the evenings. Ian White, Housemaster |  |  | |
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