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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 74 NW 7
Type of record:Monument
Name:Homestead Moat, Warde's Moat, Yalding

Summary

Homestead Moat, a later vicacridge was built on the site

Grid Reference:TQ 7044 4986
Map Sheet:TQ74NW
Parish:YALDING, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • MOAT (MOAT, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status:Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: C18th Vicarage built on the site of a Homestead Moat. The moat is filled with water and fully surrounds the house and is in excellent condition.

Full description

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[TQ 70454987] Vicarage [NAT] Moat [NAT] (1) The Vicarage was built during the 17th c. by a member of the Warde family and stands on the site of an old moated house with water still nearly surrounding it. (2) Yalding - Cheveney. Here are the nearly complete remains of a small homestead moat, about a mile north west of Hunton Court Farm. (3) This house is now called `Warde's Moat' (authority Mr. J. H. Rakes, occupier) and no longer the vicarage. Externally it does not appear older than mid 18th c. The moat fully surrounds the house and is in excellent condition water filled. An Antiquity Model Survey has been made. (4) The occupier of the house possesses a plan (undated) prepared for John Warde. This shows the moat but no building inside it. John Warde was the vicar of Yalding from 1759-1798 and presumably built the present house, the architecture being of this period. The date given by authority 2 is therefore incorrect. (5) Published 1/2500 survey checked and correct. (6) Wardes Moat (formerly listed as the Old Vicarage). Grade II. A house of 1759-1798, formerly a vicarage, with additions of c.1880 and 20th century alterations. Built on a moated site. (7) Additional bibliography. (8-10)


<1> OS 6" 1907-38 (OS Card Reference). SKE48320.

<2> A Saunter thro' Kent with Pen & Pencil 22 (1928) 86 (C Igglesden) (OS Card Reference). SKE32843.

<3> VCH Kent 1 1908 428 "Homestead Moats" (OS Card Reference). SKE50902.

<4> F1 CFW 13-JAN-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42560.

<5> Records of Rochester Diocese 1910 310 (Rev C H Fielding M A) (OS Card Reference). SKE49108.

<6> F2 EG 12-MAY-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE43302.

<7> F3 ASP 13-JAN-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE43371.

<8> DOE (HHR) Dist of Maidstone Kent 1987 132 (OS Card Reference). SKE40290.

<9> Bldgs of Eng-West Kent & the Weald 1980 621 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38167.

<10> Arch Cant 93 1977 222 (T Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE36151.

<11> Moated Sites Research Group 6 1979 (ed C J Bond)48 (OS Card Reference). SKE47305.

<12> Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 7 - January, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3749.

<13> Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 7 - May, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3750.

<14> Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 7 - January, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3751.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1907-38.
<2>OS Card Reference: A Saunter thro' Kent with Pen & Pencil 22 (1928) 86 (C Igglesden).
<3>OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 1 1908 428 "Homestead Moats".
<4>OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 13-JAN-59.
<5>OS Card Reference: Records of Rochester Diocese 1910 310 (Rev C H Fielding M A).
<6>OS Card Reference: F2 EG 12-MAY-59.
<7>OS Card Reference: F3 ASP 13-JAN-59.
<8>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Maidstone Kent 1987 132.
<9>XYOS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng-West Kent & the Weald 1980 621 (J Newman). [Mapped feature: #18771 moat, ]
<10>OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 93 1977 222 (T Tatton-Brown).
<11>OS Card Reference: Moated Sites Research Group 6 1979 (ed C J Bond)48.
<12>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 7 - January, 1959.
<13>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 7 - May, 1959.
<14>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 7 - January, 1964.