Nashenden Farm (TQ 732 659) This place was a considerable manor in earlier times and is mentioned in Domesday. In 1969 the Archaeological Society of Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School re-excavated the site, by kind permission of the owners and of Mr. Auger, the tenant. It was soon apparent that Victorian excavation had destroyed all stratification and that approximately half of the building had been destroyed when the nearby oast house was built. However, it was possible to reconstruct the ground plan with some certainty and to trace four periods of construction. The first building seems to have been a rectangle, well built in flint and ragstone, with a bottom course of large ragstone blocks. To this building was added an extension, 16ft long internally. A dividing wall was subsequently inserted into this extension. The south east wall of the second period building was reconstructed . Although this building is traditionally the Chapel, there is nothing ecclesiastical about its plan or its orientation. It must therefore have been in domestic use. On the whole, it would seem likely that this building formed the late twelfth or thirteenth century manor house and that the site of the Chapel, if a separate building, must be sought elsewhere. (1)

<1> Arch Cant 85 1970 98-101 (AC Harrison) (OS Card Reference). SKE35833.