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Monument details
| HER Number: | MKE83339 |
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| Type of record: | Farmstead |
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| Name: | Decoy Farm |
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Summary
A loose courtyard plan farmstead with buildings to three sides of the yard.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7865 7700 |
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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 to Modern - 1800 AD to 2050 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 in central position
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Altered - partial loss of original form (less than 50%)
(1-2)
Decoy Farm is mentioned in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for High Halstow Parish as part of its wider Hoo Peninsula studies. The report states that Decoy Farm was built on rising ground to the south of the decoy ponds at Decoy Fleet, possibly with its own decoy pond. It may have replaced a farmstead associated with the decoy pond in the marshes. The farmhouse was lost in the 1960s. (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Forum Heritage Services. 2012.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 | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009.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. |
