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Offline johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #332 on: November 26, 2019, 02:50:31 PM »
Perfectly fair by me, for once I didn't check my answer, it just looked like the building that I drove past every day to and from work for about 4years back in the 70s.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #331 on: November 26, 2019, 02:16:27 PM »
It took me longer to get the photo than you two took to recognise it!  I had hoped that a well hidden chapel away from East Kent might be harder.

It is indeed St. Benedict's, Paddlesworth.  Grandarog gets the brownie points.  Built early 12C.  From 1678 until the early 20C it was used as a barn.  It was restored and subsequently declared redundant in the 20C and is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.

The pair of you have created a problem for me.  You both got it within three minutes of each other.  John only identified it by "looks like Paddlesworth" and "probably used to house livestock".  Grandarog made a definite statement, included the dedication and ownership.  Therefore I'm awarding it to Grandarog, but only by the shortest of short noses.  I hope that's fair.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #330 on: November 26, 2019, 12:56:48 PM »
I think it is St Benedicts ,Paddlesworth ,Snodland. For the Brownie points. Owned by Church,s Conservation Trust.

 I believe was used as a farm shed for years before it became the Chapel it is today.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #329 on: November 26, 2019, 12:53:27 PM »
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #328 on: November 26, 2019, 12:15:19 PM »
Here's a nice little chapel.  Bragging rights if you can say what else it was used for and who owns it now.  Apologies for the image quality, I was out taking it earlier today and it  rained!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #327 on: November 26, 2019, 07:26:38 AM »
I was indeed MartinR

This is recorded as a rare example of an integral dovecote in the upper room (it's full of nesting boxes built into the inner face of the brickwork), hen-house in the middle room (solid brick floor laid over timber to collect the droppings) and pigsties in the lower room. Dating from the early eighteenth-century, all three uses were majorly important to a small - moderate sized farm (Burnt House Farm), which got its name from the burning down of a large mansion in the early eighteenth-century. Parts of the earlier mansion's diaper brickwork (patterned with darker bricks) can be seen in the surviving farmhouse. As for the dovecote, it is assumed this, and the adjacent barn/stables, were constructed during the formation of the farm from the burnt ruins, the lands of which were subdivided firstly by the construction of the main Ashford - Canterbury Road (A28) in the early 1830's to the north, then by the Ashford - Canterbury Railway to the south in 1846.

Whilst JohnWalker got the location, it was the function I needed also, so over to you MartinR 

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #326 on: November 25, 2019, 11:27:07 PM »
I assume you're after the pigs and poultry.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #325 on: November 25, 2019, 10:54:57 PM »
It is Burnt House Farm, Chartham, but it's not the oast. It is the dovecote, but there are two further reputed agricultural functions to the building apart from the dovecote? Full points are going begging here?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #324 on: November 25, 2019, 08:02:06 PM »
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/408086
 MartinR has it ,not me. He beat me to the draw while i was searching. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #323 on: November 25, 2019, 07:33:18 PM »
I think you'll find it's the dovecot, not the farm and oast.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #322 on: November 25, 2019, 07:06:59 PM »
Well, I've found the location but not sure what it's uses were.


Burnt House Farmhouse and the Oast House, Chartham Village

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #321 on: November 25, 2019, 04:10:16 PM »
It is the Chartham area johnfilmer

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #320 on: November 25, 2019, 03:57:27 PM »
Chartham area?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #319 on: November 25, 2019, 02:26:48 PM »
Yes, East Kent

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #318 on: November 25, 2019, 12:24:28 PM »
East Kent ?