Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A loose courtyard plan farmstead with buildings to two sides of the yard.

Monument Types

• FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1800 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)

This feature is recored in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Allhallows Parish. The report states: "The village contained several farmsteads of which little trace now survives and a number of other outlying farms were scattered across the parish including the surviving farm sites at…Nord Farm…Nord Farm, in the south east of the parish, was in existence by the early 19th century, if not earlier, but survives only as a collection of agricultural sheds." (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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.

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