Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A regular courtyard farmstead with buildings to three sides of the yard incorporating a L-plan element.

Monument Types

• FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Type: Regular courtyard L with working agricultural buildings on three sides and with additional detached elements to the main plan
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached in central position
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Only the farmhouse remains
(1-2)

Mentioned in Isle of Grain Historic Area Assessment conducted by English Heritage in 2014. Described as part of a group of farms close to the village of Grain. "By the 18th century, if not earlier, much of the farming was done by tennants for absent owners… In the 1840s only two properties, White House Farm and Whitehall Farm, were farmed by their owners". One of three significant pre-19th century survivals in the village of Grain, alongside the church and the Hogarth Inn. "The farmhouse has an 18th century appearance, with a handsome symmetrical front, and is clad in weatherboards. In 2009 a single-storey farm building, seemingly of late 19th century date, was still standing to its north" (3).

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE18076.

<3> English Heritage, 2014, Isle of Grain, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic area assessment (Monograph). SKE29397.

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