Type: Regular courtyard multi-yard
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached in central position
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Farmstead completely demolished
Notes: Oast
(1-2)

Yonsea Farm was planned and executed in the main, as a one phase development by the 9th Earl of Thanet as part of his Hothfield Estate in 1816-19. The complex representied a model farm development. The farm buildings were of common materials of red brick laid predominatly in Flemish bond and timber framing with jowled knee braces and vertical butt-edged weatherboarded cladding and slated roofs (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 Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document).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 English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document).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> Oxford Archaeology, 2011, Yonsea Farm, Hothfield, Kent: Archaeological Analysis During Dismantling (Unpublished document). SKE29486.