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Monument details
| HER Number: | MKE83337 |
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| Type of record: | Farmstead |
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| Name: | Walnut Tree, High Halstow Parish |
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Summary
A loose courtyard plan farmstead with buildings to three sides of the yard.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7901 7583 |
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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 - 1800 AD to 1800 AD)
Full description
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Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on three sides and with additional detached elements to the main plan
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached gable end-on to yard
Position: Loose farmstead cluster
Survivial: Altered - significant loss of original form (more than 50%)
New sheds: Large modern sheds built on the site of the historic farmstead, may have destroyed original buildings or obscured them
(1-2)
Walnut Tree Farm is mentioned as an 'historic farmstead' in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for High Halstow Parish as part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. Described as 'remaining' in the report (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Forum Heritage Services. 2012.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 | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009.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. |
