Farmstead record MKE83427 - Brick House

Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on one side
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Farmstead completely demolished
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A post medieval sheepfold and an adjacent building on its southern side are depicted on the 1894 Ordnance Survey map in Cooling Marsh. This sheepfold was within a small field defined by drainage ditches at TQ 7632 7825. Nothing is depicted here on the Ordnance Survey 1805 map but this site may be the building linked to Willow Wick by a path that is marked on a later revision. By 1897 the site is marked "Brick House", although the buildings depicted have not changed from the 1894 edition. Although still visible on aerial photographs taken in 1961 the building appears to have been demolished or partly collapsed by 1978. All structures had gone by 2003 and the drainage ditches levelled. This site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(3-9)

<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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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> Ordinance Survey, 1894, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, 1894 (Map). SKE57249.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1897, Kent 1:2500 1897 (Map). SKE58577.

<5> RAF, 1947, RAF CPE/UK/1923 4028 16-JAN-1947 (Photograph). SKE57230.

<6> 1805, Kent First Series 1:63360 1805 (Map). SKE58821.

<7> RAF, 1961, RAF 58/4646 346-347 28-AUG-1961 (Photograph). SKE58829.

<8> 1978, NMR OS/78123 43-44 17-AUG-1978 (Photograph). SKE58830.

<9> EARTH.GOOGLE.COM, 2011, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 31-DEC-2003 ACCESSED 20-SEP-2011 (Photograph). SKE58831.