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Monument details
| HER Number: | MKE83309 |
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| Type of record: | Farmstead |
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| Name: | Great Dalham, High Halstow Parish |
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Summary
A loose courtyard plan farmstead with buildings to two sides of the yard.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7734 7538 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77NE |
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| Parish: | HIGH HALSTOW, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1540 AD)
Full description
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Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on one side and with additional detached elements to the main plan
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached in central position
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Altered - significant loss of original form (more than 50%)
(1-2)
Great Dalham is reported as the oldest extant farmhouse among a number of dispersed farms in the parish that combined marshland pasture, upland arable fields and woodland. Great Dalham in Cooling Road dates from the early 16th century. It is a timber framed and weatherboarded building (grade II listed) (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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> historic england, 2014, High Halstow, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic Area Assessment. Research Report 53-2014 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31598.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Forum Heritage Services. 2012. Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009. Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: historic england. 2014. High Halstow, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic Area Assessment. Research Report 53-2014. |
