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1940 Aerial phtograph showing the Hottsfield with just 3 houses built. |
KCC Road Number: P14156 - Private Street (190 metres long) Hottsfield is an attractive secluded road, just off Hoselands Hill, with a mixture of housing styles of mostly detached houses. There has been a field of this name here since at least 1617 when it became an outlying field of New House Farm. The name is based on "holt" an old English name for wood. The Aerial photo of 1940 on the left shows the last years of the field in the centre of the photo, with the railway crossing through the middle. George Day of North Ash Farm bought the 11 acres of Hottsfield together with the rest of New House Farm in 1922 from Eliza Forbes. He sold off the 4 acres that would become Quakers Close to Margery Capper in 1923 and the 2 acres of Copse Side to Barbara Harker in 1924 and 1930, leaving the land which would form the road of Hottsfield. The first houses to be built were Hammonds, Fingehl and The Cottage in about 1936, which he leased out at a rent of £60 pa. He died in 1943, leaving two sons - Ralph, a farmer at Sevenoaks and Harold, a fruit salesman of Covent Garden. They sold the freeholds of the houses for £875-900 each in 1945, and in the same year Marjorie Heale bought the remaining 4 acres for £725. She and her husband split the road into plots and it was developed in a piecemeal fashion in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Links
Approximate Dates of first contruction
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