Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A regular multiyard farmstead.

Monument Types

• FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1800 AD)

Full description

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This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for St Mary Hoo Parish. The report states:" Ross's Farm and the Rectory edged the village ...By the 1840s one individual William Fuller owned St Mary's Hall, Lowland Farm, Moat Farm, Hoppers Farm and Ross Farm. This estate was subsequently acquired by Ecclesiastical Commissioners (latterly the Church Commissioners). The farms were often managed by bailiffs and it was as a tenant that Henry Pye arrived at St Mary's Hall in 1851. He subsequently went on to lease Swigshole Farm, Ross Farm, Hoppers Farm and Fenn Street Farm (in St Mary Hoo parish) as well as Turkey Hall Farm and New Barn Farm (in Stoke Parish). During the 19th century Egypt Marsh Farm was merged with part of Ross Farm…The historic farmstead at Ross Farm on the western edge of the village was cleared in the mid-20th century replaced by complex of large agricultural sheds. Immediately to the south are a pair of early 20th century rendered houses Ross Cottages, these replaced two older cottages belonging to the farm that stood adjacent to the village street. One consequence of farm amalgamation was the subdivision of farmhouses into cottages. This had occurred at Ross Farm by the 1830s". (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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: St Mary Hoo Parish. Research Report 2014-52 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31593.

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