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Monument details

HER Number:TR 05 SW 155
Type of record:Monument
Name:Hop pickers huts south of Halls Bottom Cottage

Summary

Late nineteenth century hop pickers huts South of Halls Bottom Cottage.


Grid Reference:TR 0239 5406
Map Sheet:TR05SW
Parish:BADLESMERE, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOPPERS HUT (Post Medieval to Modern - 1862 AD? to 1990 AD?)

Full description

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Hops pickers hut south of Halls Bottom Cottage.
A rectangular structure and a smaller square (possible toilet block) shown on the first edition Ordnance survey map of 1862-1875. The main structure can be seen on the 1940s aerial photographs. The probable toilet block, appears to have changed position on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1907-23, this building has been demolished befor the 1990 aerial survey.

Identified from the Historic Farmsteads Survey. (1)


Wessex Archaeology, 2008, Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea A scoping Study: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE18122.

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2008. Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea A scoping Study: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment.
<1>Unpublished document: Forum Heritage Services. 2012. Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project.