Building record TR 16 SE 255 - Shelter Shed at Hicks Forstal Farm

Summary

Shelter shed, maybe wagon lodge, mid 19th century.

Location

Grid reference TR 1807 6385 (point)
Map sheet TR16SE
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish STURRY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Reference from Archaeological Survey: "Shelter shed, possibly a wagon lodge. Mid 19th century, much altered in the 20th century. All that remains of the original is the back wall, built of red and yellow brick to a rough Flemish bond (including a band of 20th century concrete blocks). The front is 20th centruy concrete block; 20th century roof clad in corrugated iron. The shed projects at right angles from west end of the south side of the barn forming the west side of the rickyard, between the barn and front boundary wall. There is a passage at the north end between the main shed an the barn. If, as seems likely, the yard was a rickyard, it seems most likely that a shed here was used for sheltering wagons rather than cattle. In the mid 20th century the lodge was converted to a poultry house, re-roofed and refronted but possibly same dimensions as the original, a hypothesis supported by the survival of the passage at the north end which is shown on the 1908 OS map. No photograph."


<(1)> Kent Farmsteads Survey, 1991, Canterbury, Herne, Hicks Forstal survey (Unpublished document). SKE30033.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <(1)> Unpublished document: Kent Farmsteads Survey. 1991. Canterbury, Herne, Hicks Forstal survey.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Farmstead Survey, Hicks Forstal, Herne, Canterbury (Ref: KFS-000107) (EKE13815)

Record last edited

Feb 11 2015 1:02PM