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Images of Stack Lane from Church
Road to Ash Road
(click on image for larger version)
Historic Photos
Church
Road end c1920, note pond, entrance gate to road, and the house St Bernards, now demolished.
Similar
date, looking the other way to the RC Church
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Postcode
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DA3 8BL
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Housing
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26 houses, 4 bungalows
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Council Tax
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1 x Band D;
7 x Band E; 14 x Band F; 8 x Band G
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KCC Road No.
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n/a
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Housing Density
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6.1 / acre (15.1 / hectare)
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Average House Price (06/07)
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£367,000 (2 sales)
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Stack Lane is an unadopted private road in the
centre of the village with 26 houses and 3 bungalows of varying
ages. The road is classified as a restricted user byway. This
means that it has public access on foot, bicycle or horse, but vehicular
access is restricted to access only. Since 6
August 1975 it has been illegal to drive along the western end
of the road from Carmelite Way to Ash Road, except for access. However
many drivers do not heed this traffic order; in consequence the
road is in a very poor condition.
The road probably began as a farm track
for Middle Farm, as it lies on the border of Upper and Lower Homefield.
Charles Ellerby (Hartley 1912-74) remembers the pre 1914 Stack
Lane: "The line of stacks in Stack Lane is somewhat
depleted at this pre-harvest time of year, but the remains of last
year's hay ricks still stand, with the summer's half finished stack
of straw trusses after recent threshing and a round wheat stack
and one oval oat stack left for Autumn seeding". The
road's name was gentrified after the second world war from Stack
Road to Stack Lane.
Many of the houses in Stack Lane were
originally built by Miss Beatrice Davies-Cooke to be only for Roman
Catholics. From the Church Road end there was St Bernards
(pictured - meant to be for a priest), St Peters, Pere Lamy, St
Annes, Stack Cottage and Whitehaven, while on the other side of
the road she sold some land to another Roman Catholic, Mrs Firth,
who built Chantry Cottage (see history
of RC Church).
The remainder of the road has developed
piecemeal.
The Houses of Stack Lane
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House
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Approx date of first
construction
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Notes
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North Side
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Ash Road entrance
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Rosebank
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1949
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Moonrakers
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1968
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Romney Cottage
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1952
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Formerly called "Eureka"
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Berne
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1950
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Substantially extended
1980; former owner Samuel Dreyer was butler at Fawkham
Manor and came from Switzerland
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The Hive
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1964
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The Web
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1964
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High Gables
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1964
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Lonicera
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1993
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Lonicera - Broadmead
were built on site of house
called "Whitehaven" (built 1930)
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(side road to)
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- Farthing Lodge
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1993
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- Jarolm
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1993
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- Broadmead
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1993
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Stack Cottage
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1918
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Former RC Parish Hall,
originally an army hut purchased from Chatham after
WW1
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St Annes
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1930
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Crispin Cottage
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1971
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Crispin Cottage - Fairmile
built on site of St Peters (built about 1930)
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Thorne House
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1971
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Formerly called "Killay"
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Fairmile
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1971
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Cymar
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1971
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Cymar - Cherry Trees
built on site of Pere Lamy (formerly called St Just,
built about 1930)
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Cherry Trees
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1971
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Kamires
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1972
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Built on site of RC Hall
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Jaize
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1972
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Jaize - Dee Mead built
on site of St Bernards (built 1924)
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Tara Dene
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1972
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Dee Mead
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1972
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(Church Road)
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South Side
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Ash Road entrance
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Trianon
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1976
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Built on site of Homefield
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Brushwood
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1918
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Formerly called Homefield,
this house replaced original house in 1976
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Haycroft
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1962
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Formerly called Cruachan
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Beulah
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1933
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Named after the biblical
"happy land"
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Chantry Cottage
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1938
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Glenhurst
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1966
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Built by Newlocton Builders
Ltd
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Ashlyn
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1966
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Built by Newlocton Builders
Ltd; formerly called Karayne (cn 1967)
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Entrance to Carmelite
Way
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Abergwawn
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1967
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Abergwawn is the welsh
for Fishguard
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Trelights
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1966
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Formerly called Avilion
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Our Lady of Hartley RC
School
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1973
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Rosary Cottage
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before 1918
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Demolished some time
after 1972
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(Church Road)
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