The Mount, Cobham
Description: The Mount
Grade: II
Date Listed: 26 July 1983
English Heritage Building ID: 356762
OS Grid Reference: TQ6753969460
OS Grid Coordinates: 567539, 169460
Latitude/Longitude: 51.3994, 0.4071
Location: Scotland Lane, Cobham, Kent ME2 3UB
Locality: Cobham
Local Authority: Gravesham
County: Kent
Country: England
Postcode: ME2 3UB
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I can remember this building being listed whilst we were resident there, the grounds have changed quite a bit in 29 years.
We lived at the Mount from 1975 and my husband was the local game keeper at the time. My 3 eldest children attended the local Primary School. I can remember the house being very cold, we had wild bees in the top floor bedroom which meant that we could not use it. The floor above the kitchen was not able to be used.
My eldest daughter used to keep her pony Friday in the stables and at that time only the footpath was open to the public. The woods were closed to the public.
There were Bees kept at the property by the local apiarist who used to supply us with honey and honey combs.
We kept lambs, dogs, chicken, geese, partridges, and ornamental pheasants kept by my son. The whole of the ground behind the house was a vegtable garden. We also have one an ariel picture taken of the Mount when they were taking pictures for a factory.
Ann Graves, 8 January 2011
Found this on the web - I lived in this house and loved every minute of it.
THE MANOR of Haydon, or Hathdune, in Saxon, ædune, now called THE MOUNT, lies within the bounds of this parish. It was part of the great estate of Odo, bishop of Baieux, the Conqueror's half brother, under the general title of whose lands it is thus entered in the general survey of Domesday:
The same Ernulf (de Hesding) holds of the bishop Hadone. It was taxed at three yokes. The arable is one carucate, and there is in demesne and six vil leins, with one borderer, having one carucate. There are six acres of meadow. In the time of Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth 50 shillings, now 60 shillings. Osuuard held it of king Edward.—Odo holds of the bishop in the same Hadone one yoke. The arable land is half a carucate. In demesne there is nothing In the time of king Edward, and afterwards, and now it was and is worth 20 shillings.
Who were the possessors after this, until the beginning of the present century, I cannot learn, but it then came into the possession of Hubbard, and Mr. James Hubbard, in 1734, alienated it to Richard Hornsby, esq. of Horton Kirkby, on whose death it became the property of his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Hornsby, who sold it to William Salton Stall, esq. whose widow is now entitled to it.
This manor and Henhurst above mentioned, among others in this neighbourhood, were antiently bound to contribute to the repair of the fourth pier of Rochester bridge.
From: 'Parishes: Cobham', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 (1797), pp. 404-442. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62870 Date accessed: 23 January 2012.
Petita Wiles, 23 January 2012