Bexley Heritage Trust

Hall Place is a fine Tudor mansion built almost five hundred years ago in the reign of Henry VIII for the Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Champneys, using salvaged medieval stone in its construction. The house has a magnificent panelled Great Hall with Minstrel's Gallery. Sir Robert Austen added it to in the 17th century.

The house sits in 65 hectares of award winning gardens, one of only five sites in the UK to have won the Civic Trust's Green Flag award for ten successive years. They boast a stunning topiary lawn including the Queen's Beasts, planted to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, herb gardens and inspirational herbaceous borders: there is something to see throughout the year.

The river Cray flows through the grounds. The former walled gardens have a plant nursery with display gardens, model gardens and a sub-tropical plant house with a host of exotic plants, where you can see bananas ripening in mid-Winter. The nursery shop offers visitors the chance to buy a Hall Place plant, and to get some advice from our experienced team.