MRP: The Hamptons
Thomas Stanley & Maximilian Dallison house, The Hamptons, West Peckham, Kent
This house was leased by Thomas Stanley to Elizabeth Dalyson, following the signing of a marriage contract between his daughter, Frances, and Elizabeth's son, Maximilian. The property had come into the Stanley family through the marriage of Thomas' father, XXXX Stanley, to XXXX of the Hamptons, Kent. Nothing is known of the building history.
Edward Hasted wrote in 1798: “The seat of Hamptons, now almost in ruins, stands near the east side of this stream, in a wild gloomy situation, and at a small distance, that of Oxenhoath, an antient brick building, situated on a rise of ground, having a most extensive prospect over the Weald, and again to the hills north-eastward, the ground about it is finely wooded, and is the greatest part of it exceeding rich pasture.”
The original Hamptons was apparently destroyed by fire in 1883. Another building, also titled Hamptons in West Peckham has been listed by English Heritage as Grade II. The listing states that this house was being built in 1813.
No surviving image or plan of the house has been found.
Sources
Hasted, Edward : 'Parishes: West Peckham', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 56-70
Hull, Felix, Guide to the Kent archives (XXXX, 1958), p. 174
- English heritage listing: the Hamptons
‘Letters of Thomas Stanley of Hamptons’ in Archaeologia cantiana, vol. 17 (London, 1887)
