Old Terrys Lodge, West Kingsdown, Kent

[Nennefer]

Is there anyone who knows anything on Old Terrys Lodge in west Kingsdown, Kent. I think it is in Terrys lodge lane just along the rd from Terrys Lodge farm.
I am trying to find out the age of this property and any details of previous occupants.
I think it used to be owned by the local manor house St. Claires estate or something like that.
I know it was used as the gamekeepers lodge in the 1950's
Thanks in advance for any help
Jenny

[xpecta]

I pass this house most days but the only clues i can give you are a post box set into the house with G R on it (now unused) and the back windows have been bricked up.

Not much to go on.

Jakki

[casalguidi]

Would it be the property listed as Terry's Lodge Farmhouse on the Images of England site (you may need to register to view photo and details) or is that a different building?

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

Casalguidi

[Nennefer]

I pass this house most days but the only clues i can give you are a post box set into the house with G R on it (now unused) and the back windows have been bricked up.

Not much to go on.

Jakki

Thanks for that. I didn't remember the post box. It is a curious place for a post box.

[Nennefer]

Would it be the property listed as Terry's Lodge Farmhouse on the Images of England site (you may need to register to view photo and details) or is that a different building?

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

Casalguidi

I believe Terrys Lodge Farm is a differant building just along from Old Terrys Lodge. Thanks all the same. Looks like there isn't much to be found on this building. I wonder if a search of the Census would unearth anything is there a way of searching for an address can anyone tell me.

[casalguidi]

The 1881 census is searchable by address http://www.ancestry.co.uk

Did it actually come under Ash next Ridley ie.

1861

Terry's Lodge, Ash next Ridley - uninhabited

RG9/469 folio 130 page 3
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1851 - Ash (next Ridley)

Terry's Lodge Gate House
Terry's Lodge House (farmer)
Terry's Lodge Cottage

HO107/1607 folio 849 page 20 and the preceding page

Just shout if you want the full entries.

Have you tried ...........

http://www.historicaldirectories.org
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Maps/ANR/01.htm
http://www.hereshistorykent.org.uk/

Casalguidi

[Tracy Wise]

I can't supply you you with any details about the property but I can tell you my Great Grandfather and his family lived in one of the cottages (I think there were three which in more recent times were knocked into one large house) He was called Edwin Mills and was the Game Keeper on the estate during the twenties up until his death in the seventies. I vaguely remember visiting them when I was a child and remember the small dark scullery in the back of the house and the front parlour (only for best). Is there anything specific you need to know as my Mother and her sisters lived with their Grandparents for a while during the forties and may be able to tell me more about the ownership of the place and the estate at that time if that is what you are interested in. One of my Aunts has a superb photograph of Edwin with a full brace of pheasants and his guns outside the cottage.

Tracy Wise

[Nennefer]

Thanks for that any information would be of great interest. The reason for my interest is that I was born in old Terry's lodge in the late 50s my father was also Game Keeper there for a short while. I am very interested in any information I can get on its history. It is the little detached cottage that has its back directly onto the road and looks out from the top of the Downs. It had no running water there and my mother had to draw water from the well in the garden. Ahhh what happy days.

[Tracy Wise]

Spoke to one of my Aunts today and she thought the estate belonged to a Sir Mark Ediman Collet son of Sir Mark Wilk Collet (1864-1944) First Baronet of St Clere's born 1816, died 1905, a Governor of the Bank of England.

I was also a bit confused with the dates that my Great Grandfather lived in Old Terry's Lodge. He worked there during the twenties and thirties which is where my Grandmother and her siblings grew up but they had moved on to Fairseat by the forties til the seventies to another estate owned by the Stonehams I think which is the cottage I remember visiting.

I do remember my Gran saying how she used to be allowed a ride on the masters carriage up to the main house (St Clere's?) sometimes , when she was a small girl and having to walk three miles each way to school in Wrotham.

Anyhow I am speaking with my Gran's sister in law soon who would certainly remember more so hopefully will report back soon.

Regards and have enjoyed opening up more of my families history in that area, thank you.