Quebec House in Westerham, Kent - General James Wolfe spent the first eleven years of his life at Quebec House. His parents rented the house, then known as Spiers, in 1726 and James was born a year later. Hidden behind a high brick wall, the square building has three distinctive gables on each side and is built of mellowed brick and Kentish ragstone. The house was already 200 years old when the Wolfe family moved in. A single mullioned Tudor window survives but it was bricked up when the main staircase was built in the late 17th century. Although many alterations were made to the house in the 18th and 19th centuries these have been swept away and the building has been returned to its 17th century appearance. - 固opFoto