Hardwick Court Farm

[1] A first reference to it Hardwick, a manor, occurs in 1430 when it was held by the abbey and assigned to William Frowyk to farm.

As an Abbot's asset, the farming tenant was in early years only in receipt of half of the waifs and strays in the land of the manor.

After the war and temporary government (what was termed 'the Commonwealth') on the Restoration of the Monarchy, the farm was returned to the royal family and was one of many possessions in Surrey and elsewhere presented from King Charles II to his wife.

A fire broke out at the south end in 1978 but the damage was repaired and this example of medieval building remains in agricultural use today.

While the farmhouse has been rebuilt several times, the barn is a rare survivor of its kind,[3] was listed in 1952[3] and was dated in 2009 by the University of London using dendrochronology to 1445.