In extensive rebuilding and renovation in 1927–9,[3] he linked together "the farmhouse, the square edifice, one of the barns and an adjoining cottage" to create a substantial country house.

He finally returned to Goldenhurst in December 1951, recording in his diary; "We arrived at 1.55 - the house and land seemed to envelop me in a warm and lovely welcome.

"[5] But the post-war tax regime made the expense of running the large house increasingly burdensome and in 1956 Coward sold the farm[6] and his London home on Gerald Road.

"[8] He moved abroad as a tax-avoidance measure, dividing his time between Chalet Covar, at Les Avants in Switzerland and, firstly Bermuda, and then Firefly, his home in Jamaica.

[11] The house is timber-framed, of brick and Kentish ragstone, with a tiled roof and is now sub-divided into two separate properties.