Kent Life

[2] Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake bequeathed the Cobtree Manor Estate to Maidstone Borough Council in 1966.

In 1984 a decision was made to restore the derelict farm as part of a rural life museum.

As of 2013 it no longer operates as a museum and rebranded as a Heritage Farm Park, the historic houses are accessible as part of the daily ticket to the attraction which also offers tractor rides, arts and crafts, animal feeding and seasonal events yearly.

A five bay barn dating from the eighteenth century and originally at Vale Farm, Calcott, near Sturry.

[5] The chapel is a timber-framed building clad in corrugated iron (a tin tabernacle).

The builder of the link offered the cottages to the museum, along with the funding for their removal and re-erection.

They were dismantled in June 1999, and re-erected between January 2000 and March 2001, opening to the public in July 2001.

[13] A set of Hopper huts from North Frith Farm, Hadlow was dismantled and re-erected at the museum.

[14] A set of hopper huts with a wood frame clad in corrugated iron has been constructed, along with a cookhouse and privy.