Fleur de Lis

Picture from old postcard

Thomas Baily built four cottages on the corner between the High Street and Lower Green in 1855. These four cottages were bought in 1870 by Bartum and Co., brewers of Tonbridge. Later in the same year the cottage nearest Lower Green was extended by a wing of similar design and with the adjacent cottage became a public house, taking a transfer of the licence once held by the Porcupine and later the Goats Head. The two cottages to the east of the Fleur de Lys were later sold to Samuel Morley. At approximately the same time that Thomas Baily erected the four cottages in High Street, two of which were later extended as described. He purchased Home Farm at which time he rebuilt the front of the farmhouse and in the same year he built Laundry Cottage as a bakery.