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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9533 on: January 30, 2024, 04:53:29 PM »
I knew it would be recognised easily, though I hoped the odd angle might throw someone.  Yes its Kits Coty House.  More impressive is your deductions about the camera site.  It was indeed just to the edge of the car park/picnic area.  I haven't got a record of the lens in the EXIF, but I think I was using the 500mm with a doubler which with an APS-C sensor is equivalent to 1600mm (say 106x optical).  I was experimenting and having problems with (1) the wind and (2) my hips.  The exposure was 1/60, what I should have done was push the ISO up and hence use a shorter exposure.

Well done for working out the camera position, and over to you.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9532 on: January 30, 2024, 04:44:21 PM »
I’ll second that CAT, I got the “red message” as I was about to type pretty much the same answer.

That is some serious magnification, but I have a camera with a digital assisted zoom up to x38, tripod or sturdy fence post required!
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9531 on: January 30, 2024, 03:35:55 PM »
P.S. forgot to say Kit's Coty
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9530 on: January 30, 2024, 03:34:00 PM »
I know the place (easy), but I'm guessing due to the blur to the pic its from a slight elevated distant position away to the north-northwest? Not knowing the area intimately I wonder if its from the Bluebell Hill Picnic Site off Common Road?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9529 on: January 30, 2024, 12:35:22 PM »
Quote from: MartinR on January 30, 2024, 12:24:45 PM
Sorry, my fault.  the photo wasn't showing because I forgot to add it.  Oops!  It was late and I was hurrying.  Mea culpa.

No worry Martin.  I thought my aging PC was playing silly buggers again.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9528 on: January 30, 2024, 12:34:15 PM »
Right, let's try to get it correct this time.  What is the photo of, and where was the camera.  both parts needed.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9527 on: January 30, 2024, 12:24:45 PM »
Sorry, my fault.  the photo wasn't showing because I forgot to add it.  Oops!  It was late and I was hurrying.  Mea culpa.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9526 on: January 30, 2024, 07:13:09 AM »
Photo not showing on my PC
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9525 on: January 29, 2024, 07:36:32 PM »
I came across it, quite literally, driving up the road, following my instincts as to direction. It was a bit of a shock or surprise as it stood there in glorious isolation. There are more modern buildings adjacent now.

That was probably mid 1980s. Ten years later and my wife’s mother and brother moved close by, so we have passed it more frequently.

It seems that there were hedonistic goings on at one time, involving various rock stars, due to the relative isolation of the property and therefore lack of nosey nimbys.

You have it Martin
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9524 on: January 29, 2024, 05:58:40 PM »
Very interesting info MartinR - thank you.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9523 on: January 29, 2024, 04:23:55 PM »
The house is currently called Egerton House, though previously it was Egerton Manor.  The building dates back to medieval times¹ and this is visible in the kitchen/dining room area with its minstrels' gallery and medieval fireplace.  The exterior is an early 19thC addition over the older timber framed house.²

A new wing was added under the auspices of the Cornwallis family in c.1770.  It is not quite clear from conflicting sources whether the claimed 19thC frontage was actually added at this time, some 30 years earlier.  Reference 1 gives an estate agent's view of the property along with interior views.

The official listing for this grade II building locates in "Star and Garter Road", but Google and reference 1 both give the address as Egerton house Road.
Location:
  • Nat Grid:                    TQ901479 / TQ9013347961
  • Nearest Post Code:   TN27 9BD
  • Co-ords (WGS84):     51°11'57.3"N,000°43'11.6"E 51.19922,0.72004

Hasted discussed the parish, but does not mention the house.³

¹https://docslib.org/doc/452501/egerton-house-egerton-kent-egerton-house-reception-rooms
²https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1071528?section=official-list-entry
³https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol7/pp449-455

Footnote:
When I looked at the estate agent's brochure I realised that I had been there some years before.  The gentleman who owned the house at the time was a first class musician and one way he earned money was accompanying higher grade music exams.  One of my sons was in the final for the Kent Musician of the Year and needed an accompanist.   The two of them toddled off into the music room for the rehearsal whilst the lady of the house sat my wife and I down in the kitchen with coffee.  The house is every bit as special as the brochure suggests.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9522 on: January 29, 2024, 11:54:49 AM »
ESE from our last GTP
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9521 on: January 28, 2024, 05:36:54 PM »
On the Greensand Ridge
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9520 on: January 28, 2024, 11:06:18 AM »
Georgian, Grade 2 listed, and the road (lane really) that it stands on is named for the building.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9519 on: January 28, 2024, 11:02:34 AM »
Pass on this one , I'me old enough to remember the shenanigans there.  :)
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