Residential properties - Plaxdale Green Road
This page lists the residential properties in Plaxdale Green Road which runs south-westerly from the Stansted War Memorial towards the A20 where it joins Labour-in-Vain road.
Please get in touch with the Society should you have further information on any of the properties listed or suggest any alterations or additions.
Court Lodge
Court Lodge and farm buildings are next to St Mary’s church and the farmland surrounds Stansted village. The Lodge building and tithe barn are 17th century and were Grade II listed in 1984. The Lodge has an 18th-century building at the front and there are 16th-century internal fixtures which are possibly from Ightham Court or the Archbishop’s Palace at Wrotham. Well-known previous residents are theatre director Granville Barker (1909 to 1917) and Sir Gerald Hohler, MP (1917 to 1934).
Mingram Oast
To be completed
1 Court Lodge Cottages
To be completed
2 Court Lodge Cottages
To be completed
The White Cottage
This was originally a very small four room brick and timber cottage built in the 17th century. It was the home of the Firebrace sister (Ilma, Margot, Marcia and Freida) from about 1939 to 2000 and had been extended in an ad hoc manner over the years. In the early 2000s the house was remodelled and enlarged.
The Old Rectory
The Old Rectory was built in 1846 and replaced a former Rectory on the same site. Nearby, in the rectory meadow, to the right of the drive entrance from Plaxdale Green Road stood a brick and timber-framed Tithe Barn which was demolished in 1920. The Retory was used as the home of the Rector of Stansted church until 1968 when it passed into private hands. It was Grade II listed in 1984.
Stone Rocks
To be completed
Kit's House
This property was built by Sir James Berry round the time his mother, Ada, died in 1911. It was originally two cottages called Hill Side Cottages with Maud Berry in one until she died in 1949 and a school teacher Miss Bell in the other. The cottages passed through several hands until they were made one in the early 1960s and the name became the Cottage oo the Hill.. Kit and Stanley Maughan lived there from 1968 until Kit moved away in 2010 after which the name changed to Kit’s House.
Holly Place
Holly Place was built in 1904 by Joseph Hills as his family house. He was previously the publican of the Black Horse and was also a builder. He died in 1928 and the house stayed in the Hills family until the 1960s when the Unwin family moved in. They were followed in the late 1960s by the Charnley family. Bill Charnley was the Clerk to the Parish Council for many years. Over the years the house has been substantially extended at ground floor level (including a granny annexe in the 1970s). The southern (uphill) single-storey extension was extended up to the first-floor level in 2007. The front entrance has switched from Plaxdale Green Road to Hatham Green Lane.
The Old Farmhouse
Indelibly associated with the Parsons family who occupied it for the best part of 100 years, The Old Farmhouse was formerly known as Hatham (or variously Haytham/Hathan) Green Farmhouse and was one of the largest farms in the village. Prior to the Parsons’ ownership, it was successively owned by Liveryman and a surgeon and was home to a number of tenant farming families, several of whom originated from the same part of Bedfordshire. It was restored and extended from a semi-derelict state in the 1980’s.
Delatour
To be completed
Lucketts
The bungalow was built in the early 1930s by Miss Beatrice Stap, who owned The Old Manor, as accommodation for her housekeepers, Mr and Mrs Bowyer. It was later sold into private ownership.
The Old Manor
The house (known as Old Manor Cottage until about 1980) has 16th-century origins with 18th and 19th-century alterations and has a catslide roof to the west. The building is situated at right angles to Plaxdale Green Road about ¾ mile from the church. The original framework is visible inside the building; the whole was grade II listed in 1984. Miss Stap who owned the property from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s had a bungalow built in the early 1930s for her housekeepers, Mr and Mrs Bowyer. This is now a separate adjacent property called Lucketts. The rear wall of the cottage forms the boundary of the bungalow’s land.
New Property (Hollands Farm)
To be completed
Hollands Farm House
To be completed
Hilden House
To be completed
Littlefields
Thomas Duncombe Mann built “Littlefields” in around 1912 for his sister Elizabeth Mann. The original house was substantially remodelled in 2016/17.
1 Brattons Cottages
One of four houses built in 1974 by the Browne brothers who lived next door at North Down and were nurserymen in Swanley. The two pairs of semi-detached dwellings replaced the original four Brattons Cottages which pre dated 1901 and were collectively called Bunkers Knob. The new cottages were rented out from 1974 to 1984 after which they were sold to individual owners. No 3 had a 2 storey side and rear extension built in 2016/17.
2 Brattons Cottages
One of four houses built in 1974 by the Browne brothers who lived next door at North Down and were nurserymen in Swanley. The two pairs of semi-detached dwellings replaced the original four Brattons Cottages which pre dated 1901 and were collectively called Bunkers Knob. The new cottages were rented out from 1974 to 1984 after which they were sold to individual owners. No 4 had a 2 storey side rear extension built in 2018/19 togethervwith the demolition of a detached garage.
3 Brattons Cottages
One of four houses built in 1974 by the Browne brothers who lived next door at North Down and were nurserymen in Swanley. The two pairs of semi-detached dwellings replaced the original four Brattons Cottages which pre-dated 1901 and were collectively called Bunkers Knob. The new cottages were rented out from 1974 to 1984 after which they were sold to individual owners. No 1 was extended in the 1990s.
4 Brattons Cottages
One of four houses built in 1974 by the Browne brothers who lived next door at North Down and were nurserymen in Swanley. The two pairs of semi-detached dwellings replaced the original four Brattons Cottages which pre-dated 1901 and were collectively called Bunkers Knob. The new cottages were rented out from 1974 to 1984 after which they were sold to individual owners.
North Down
North Down was originally built in 1962/3 by brothers Alan and John Browne as their home. They were nurserymen in Swanley and it was them who rebuilt Brattons Cottages in 1974 and who gifted the field on the opposite side of Plaxdale Green Road to the Parish Council in 1981. From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s the house was lived in by Dr Peter Draper.
Ocklynge
The current house on this site was built in 2017 and replaced a bungalow originally built sometime between 1909 and 1938.
Rowanhurst
To be completed
Rosecomb
This house was created in 2021 by the conversion of one of two agricultural storage buildings.
Ancona
This house was created in 2021 by the conversion of one of two agricultural storage buildings.
Plaxdale Barn West
To be completed
Plaxdale Barn East
To be completed
2 Plaxdale Green Cottages
One of two semi-detached cottages built in 1900 as workers’ cottages for Plaxdale Green Farm.
1 Plaxdale Green Cottages
One of two semi-detached cottages built in 1900 as workers’ cottages for Plaxdale Green Farm.
Plaxdale Green Farm
To be completed
Oakdale Farm
180 acres of land were bought in 1961 from Brian Houlding by Paul and Brian Goodworth, who were farming at Terry’s Lodge Farm. The land had been used for free-range egg production. The current bungalow was completed in 1963 and Brian and Sheila moved in with David, Janetta and Michael. The farm was run as part of the larger family business of mixed arable, vegetables and livestock. In 1971 Brian and Sheila and their children moved to Wrotham Water Farm at Trottiscliffe and Stephen and Sheila Goodworth moved into the bungalow after their wedding in 1975. They had two children Edward and Lucy and continued to farm until retirement in 2015 when Jack Saunders took on the tenancy of the land.
Plaxton House
The house, originally named Bowyers Cottage, was in existence at the time of the 1841 Tithe assessment but was probably demolished to make way for the modern house on the site now. It was extensively refurbished in 2017 and its name was changed from Little Plaxton to Plaxton House.
Managers House, Thriftwood Country Park
From the early 1960s camping took place at Thriftwood which was originally a smallholding and over the years this has expanded into a site for 50 touring pitches and 65 leisure homes. Yhe Manager’s house is near to the entrance barrier and was built in 2002 and replaced a previous house on the site.
Wardens House, Thriftwood Country Park
As part of the Thriftwood site a residential house for the site warden was built in 2017 and is located to the north of the Clubhouse.
3 Bank Cottages
In 1841 one dwelling (occupied bt John Water) is shown on the site of the current terrace of three houses and the location was known as Shooters Corner
2 Bank Cottages
In 1841 one dwelling (occupied bt John Water) is shown on the site of the current terrace of three houses and the location was known as Shooters Corner
1 Bank Cottages
In 1841 one dwelling (occupied bt John Water) is shown on the site of the current terrace of three houses and the location was known as Shooters Corner
Auquharney
In 1841 a house existed on this site occupied by William Vaughn. The current property is named after a listed building in Hatton, Aberdeenshire 11 miles from Inverquhomery House.