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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 NW 1120
Type of record:Farmstead
Name:Avery House (Avery Farm), Allhallows-on-Sea

Summary

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

Grid Reference:TQ 8410 7836
Map Sheet:TQ87NW
Parish:ALLHALLOWS, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FARMHOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1800 AD)

Full description

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Type: Regular courtyardL with working agricultural buildings on four sides
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached in central position
Position: Loose farmstead cluster
Survivial: No apparent alteration
(1-2)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment of Allhallows parish. The report states: "A farm at Avery (previously Evere or Every now subsumed within Allhallows on Sea) [was] to the north [of the parish]…The only remnant of the former hamlet is Avery House and its outbuildings rebuilt after a fire had destroyed the entire farmstead in 1832" (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Allhallows Parish. Research Report 11-2014 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31596.

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Unpublished document: Forum Heritage Services. 2012.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Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009.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. Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Allhallows Parish. Research Report 11-2014.