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)

Great Dalham is reported as the oldest extant farmhouse among a number of dispersed farms in the parish that combined marshland pasture, upland arable fields and woodland. Great Dalham in Cooling Road dates from the early 16th century. It is a timber framed and weatherboarded building (grade II listed) (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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, High Halstow, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic Area Assessment. Research Report 53-2014 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31598.