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Alkham
Above photo showing Forstal Cottage. |
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The above picture is of believed to be the Fox and Goose in Alkham,
know known as Forstal Cottage.. |
The flint part of the building is believed to date from the seventeenth century,
although the brick part was built in 1780's. This is now known as Forstal
Cottage. The premises included a blacksmith's and a barn and stables that stood
at the back.
After Thomas Collard's death, the premises was passed onto his daughter Ann and
she married John Mummery, a victualler at Hawkinge at the time and then upon her
death, to her grand-daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth's husband, Thomas Iverson,
took out a £40 mortgage on the property in 1792 but around this time it
ceased to be an inn and the brick part, built in the 1780's was made into two
cottages. Later the cottages were named "Shoemaker's Cottage", as three
cordwainers lived there one after the other in the nineteenth century.
The building was listed as a Grade II building on 28 May 1987. House, C17 and
late C18. Flint, extended with red brick with plain tiled roof. Two storeys on
flint plinths, with hipped roof and stack to centre left. Three wooden casements
and horizontally sliding glazing bar sash to centre right on first floor, and 1
wooden casement and 3 segmentally headed glazing bar sashes on ground floor,
with 2 roundels either side of central plank and stud door, left 2 bays formed
original building, added to c.1780. Interior: light-framed partitions, inglenook
to left. C17 and early C18 an ale house known as the Fox and Goose.
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Kentish Gazette, 21 February, 1781.
To be Sold by Auction, at the house of Mrs. Mummery, at Hawkinge
Mill, near Folkestone in the County of Kent, on Thursday the 1st day
of March next, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, (unless
sooner disposed of by Private Contract, of which notice will be
given in this paper.)
Lot 2. All that good accustomed Public House, messuage, or Tenement,
known by the name of a sign of the "Fox and Goose," with the Barn,
Stable, Garden, and one Acre of land, more or less; situate in the
parish of Alkham in the County of Kent; now and the occupation of
Richard Marsh, tenant at Will, at the yearly rent of £6 10s.
The Premises are all Freehold.
For further Particulars enquire off Mess. Munk and Reynolds,
attorneys at Folkestone.
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From the Hawking Gazette and Channel Coast News. 26
Oct, 2013.
Film star connection to historic Forstal Cottage in Alkham,
near Dover
As well as being one of Alkham's historic houses, Forstal Cottage was
where the popular British character actor, James Robertson Justice once
lived.
It's located in the centre of the village and parts of the historic
building date back to the 17th Century.
The picture below, which is a watercolour from the 19th century,
shows the properties which were later called the Marquis and Forstal
Cottage.
Between these two properties is the village well, where local people
collected their water.
It can be seen that Forstal Cottage had roofs of different heights as it
was more than one property. The part with the lower roof was the first
to be built in the 17th century and became an early public house called
the Fox and Goose.'
It had a blacksmiths plus a barn and stable to the rear where 'school
cottages' now stand.
In the 1780s after the pub had closed, the building was converted into
two properties. One being known as Shoemakers Cottage as three
shoemakers lived there.
The two houses were later made into one in the late 1960s by the wife of
James Robertson Justice, a famous film actor, who then lived in the
property.
Originally published by the Alkham Newsletter.
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LICENSEE LIST
COLLARD Thomas end of 1690's
MUMMERY John ????
MARSH Richard 1759-81+ (Kentish Post)
IVERSON Thomas 1792
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