Growth of Parish 1830-2020
GROWTH OF PARISH 1830-2020
Pre-1820
Relatively few houses in the main village are as they were before 1820 – and all of them have virtually all had major extensions.
The White House
The Porcupine
Old Kennards
Gales/Greenways
Old Wood Cottage
Old Chimneys
Oak Cottage, The Green
Elizabeth Cottage
Great Brooks (shop, outbuildings and house)
The Forge
Orchard House
The Bat and Ball
The Shop and cottage adjoining
Bombers
Budgeons Cottages
Park View and West Cottage (formerly 3 cottages)
The Woods
There were numerous other houses in the parish but they have been knocked down and usually replaced by completely different houses (e.g. Forge Square, The Square, Saxby Wood, etc).
There were various houses, cottages and farms within the Parish but outside the main village which were developed over the past two centuries but are not included in this list.
1820-1900 New/Extra Houses
1820 Old Powder Mill’s Manager’s House 1
1832/33 (The Limes) now Chilling House 1
1830 Powder Mills Cottages 15
1830s? Cherry Tree Cottages, The Green (appear on 1841 tithe map) 2
1831 School House with attached cottage, Powder Mill Lane 1
1840s Pump Cottage, High Street 1
1840s? Bell Cottage, Church Hill 1
1841 Old Brickmakers 1
1842 Kennards (formerly Kennards Cottage) 1
1851 Rose Cottage (now Charlotte Bungalows) 1
1852 East Lodge (replacement) –
1852 Pinnacles (Pepperpot) 1
1853 Old Bakery, Lower Green 2
1853 El Vanin and Ranmore, Lower Green 2
1854 The Greyhound, Charcott 1
1855 Fleur de Lis cottages (1870 two converted into Pub) 4-2
1855 Old Laundry/Laundry Cottage (Bid Brook) 2
1856 Park Holt (Penshurst Estate) 1
1855 Church Hill House 1
1856 Barden Cottages, The Green 4
1859 Knotley Hall 10 (approx.)
1860? Engineers Cottage & Sandalwood built post 1841 tithe 2
Commutation and 1870 when appear on
Ordnance Survey Map
c.1860 Blackhoath Cottages (Penshurst Estate) 2
1860s Newtown Cottages, Charcott 4
1860s Lightfoot Cottages (Penshurst Estate) 4
1863 The Cottage (Head Gardeners House, Hall Place) 2
1865 The Stone House , High Street 3
1865 Park House, Hildenborough Road 1
c1870 Wickhurst Farm cottages 4
1871 Wickhurst Farm converted buidings 2
c.?1870 Paul’s Hill Cottage 1
1870s Upper Kennards – extended (replacing farmhouse) –
c.1873 Institute Cottage, High Street 1
c.1873 Forge House 1
c.1873 The Waterworks (post 1980s converted to house)
c.1873 1 and 2 Waterwork Cottages 2
1873/74 Eastern and Western Bungalow, Penshurst Road 2
1874/75 The Cottage, High Street 1
1875 West Lodge (replacement) –
1876 School Master’s House (at Leigh School) 1
1876 Cinder Hill Farm Cottages 3
1877 Vicarage (replacement) –
1880-90 Oak Cottages, The Firs, Lower Mead Cott. (Penshurst Road) 5
1888 Cinder Hill Farm Cottages (Redleaf Estate) 3
1887/88 Forge Square (7 homes replacing 7 of Forge Row) 7
1890 South View (initially convalescent home) 1
1892-95 Wickhurst Farm expanded 3
1893 Moorden Farm Cottages (Penshurst Estate) 3
1889/90 The Square and Southdown House (replacement) -1
1897 Jubilee Almshouses, The Green 2
1890s Coppins Brook area 8
1890 Field Cottage, Prices Farm 1
1893 The Vicarage, Chiddingstone Causeway 1
20th Century: pre-WW2
c. 1900 Bakery/Iris Cottage/Charcott Green Cottages etc 6
(1902) Cricket Pavilion –
1906-1914 Garden Cottages 26
1910s The Compasses 10
1913 3 Vestry Cottages next to South View: demolished -3
c.1913 Chestnuts, The Green 1
1920s Barnetts Road 22
1920 The Diary, Green View Avenue 1
1922 Barnetts Mead 1
?1930s Collins Bungalows, Kiln Lane 3
1930s Leigh Park Farm Cottages 4
1930 Wooden bungalow, top of Hollow Trees Drive 1
1925-1938 Green View and Lealands Avenue 31
(Hillcrest 1934)
1928 Kenbar (now Fair Acres), Powder Mill Lane 1
1930s Powder Mill Lane houses in main village – various 4
1930s Penshurst Road (various houses) 25
(Burstock 1930; Cheriton 1930)
1933 Applegarth 1
1934 Netherfield, Powder Mill Lane 1
Post WW2
1950s Moorden Cottages 1
1948/50 Pre-fabs at Meadowbank area 8
1950s The Kennels/Woodside (Redleaf Estate) 1
1950s Old Orchard pre-fabs, Charcott 23
1950s Bungalow (replaced with Podium House, The Green) 1
1954 Kiln Mere (formerly Ensleigh) 1
1956/57 Wyndham Avenue and Wyndham Close
1957 Police House, Green Lane 1
Late 1950s 1,2,3 Bungalows, Green Lane 3
1953 Ensleigh, Lower Green 1
1960s The Bungalow, Prices Wood 1
1950s/60s Hollow Trees Drive (extra houses)
1960 Old Orchard houses, Charcott (replacing pre-fabs) +13
?1960s Further houses Green View and Lealand (infill) 10
c.1960 Charlotte Bungalows (replaced Rose Cottage) (+ 4
1961 New Vicarage 1
1961 Inglenook (conversion of Old Vicarage stables) 1
1961/62 Pippin Cottage, The Green 1
1963/64 3, 5, 7, 9 Lower Green 4
1963/64 3 houses in Kiln Lane 3
1964 Wheelwrights, High Street – converted 1
1965 Ivydale and Bradbourne replacing 2 parish cottages 2
1967/68 Donkey Field 5
1968/69 Saxby Wood (replacements) +2
1970s The Croft, Church Hill, replaced the bungalow
(which had replaced 2 weatherboarded cottages) -1
?1970s Lower Green/Kiln Lane 7
?1970s Various houses near Ramhurst (new and conversions) 5
1970s Moat Farm Cottage, Moat Farm Granary, The Great Barn
Former farm buildings converted 3
?1970 Knotley Hall conversion [SEE 1859] +2
?1970s Crandalls 6
1970/80 First Well Close development 6
1970/80 Meadowbank (replacing pre-fabs) +16
1978 Bridge House 1
?1980s Bell Cottage (formerly part of Great Brooks) 1
1980s Charcott Farm conversions
(Granary, Oast House, Old Barn, Old Stables, Farm) 5
1983/84 The Forstall (replacing 1949 built Airey Houses) –
1988 Orchard Lodge 1
1989 Waterworks (built ca 1873) conversion, Kiln Lane 1
1990 Cinder Hill Farm oast converted 1
1990s Wickhurst farm conversions 5
1990s Paul’s Hill Oast (conversion) 1
1990s Main Well Close development 39
1996 Home Farm Close 12
1990s Lower Green extra houses 4
21st Century
?2000s Home Farm development +12
(conversions of historic buildings, not new builds;
three other properties on the site were not part of this development,
namely Home Farm, Home Farm Cottage – pre-date redevelopment
Orchard Cottage: built 1954)
?2000s Meadow Bank extra houses +5
?2000s Gibbs Field 9
?2000s Shoe House/Cedar Court 1
?2000s Fairlawn 1
?2000 Forge Cottage (former Butcher Shop converted) 1
2001 The Forstall, two additional homes 2
2005 Hunter Seal 17
2005 Barnetts Road (in-fill houses) 5
2005/2010 Hollow Trees Drive area (Hollow Trees Close) 9
2015 Powder Mills redevelopment 80
2015 Oakguard, Powder Mill Lane 2015
2015 Middlewood (Gaza) 1
2021 Kiln Lane/Lower Green development 7
Notes:
- In 2020 there were 768 households in the parish (source: 2020 Electoral Register)
- Figures in brackets mean new houses replacing existing ones.
- Only sixteen original houses in the main village pre-date the 1841 Tithe Map (Biddle p. 91).
A large proportion of the houses in the parish have been extended from their original size.
CHRIS ROWLEY (as at Dec 2021)