Oziers Farm

Oziers Farm, formerly known as Osier Farmhouse, is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century and late 17th century. It features chequered red and grey brick construction and a plain tiled roof, with a timber-framed range at the rear that is clad in red brick. The building stands two storeys high with an attic, set on a plinth, and has a plat band and overhanging moulded eaves on a hipped roof that includes two gabled dormers and a stack on the rear left. The front has a regular arrangement of three wooden casement windows and two blocked window openings on the first floor, along with two wooden casements and two blocked openings on the ground floor, all topped with segmental heads. A central boarded door is located in a gabled porch. The rear range has a hip and gablet roof. Oziers Farm, also known as the Brennet, is historically significant as it was the site of the first plantations by Richard Harrys of apple and cherry orchards in 1533, marking the start of commercial fruit growing in both Kent and England.