Betteshanger House, (also known as Northbourne Park School), Deal, England

Betteshanger House is a former estate, with its heyday in Victorian times. At that time, the associated woodland, parkland and gardens formed part of the unique, wooded, historic landscape of private estates that lie west of Deal and east of Wingham. Others include Waldershare, Goodnestone, Knowlton, Updown and Northbourne Court as major examples.

The house is a massive and generally successful example of George Devey's country house style, but cleverly embodying 16th and 17th century local features such as Flemish gables and windows in stone, flint and brick.

Devey enlarged a smaller, early-19th century house from 1851 onwards for Lord Northbourne. The enlargements included a tower, and were not completed until the 1880s, after Devey's death. He also built various estate cottages, including two lodges and the old cottage hospital on the main road (1875).

The late Lord Northbourne (died 1982) granted the house and estate to Northbourne Park School in 1934. The grounds are characterised by copses, parkland with specimen trees, and the derelict remnants of more formal gardens of the 19th and early-20th century.