Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A dispersed multiyard plan farmstead.

Monument Types

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

Full description

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Type: Dispersed multi-yard
Farmhouse: Uncertain which building is/was the farmhouse
Position: Located within a village
Survivial: Farmstead completely demolished
(1-2)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe Parish. The report states:
"By the late 18th century Cliffe consisted of a two long rows of houses and cottages along both sides of Church Street with housing continuing along the north side of Rye Street (later Reed Street) and outlying grouping along West Street…Wharf Farm farmhouse at the end of Wharf Lane survives from this period…The 18th century a period of seemingly renewed affluence for much of the Peninsula, is also comparatively well represented by a number of red-brick, two-storeyed buildings: No 185 Church Street with 19th century shopfront; Quickrills, also on Church Street, with gable parapets and end stack; The Red House on Reed Street with timber modillioned eaves cornice; and the farmhouse of Wharf Farm at the end of Wharf Lane formerly separated from the village but now linked by recent housing." (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31591.

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