Kent life - Open air museum

 Kent life 

 Date:  April

Location: Maidstone 

Public or Abandoned: public 

Demolished: No  

I went for a day out in kent life with my little one and a few friends, it was a fun day out and for the first time ever I went into the building around kent life ( normally I skip them ), the farm has a load of buildings with interesting history around  them as well as animals you can feed and touch and parks, indoor soft place, tractor ride ect, in the springtime you can see lambs and chicks, the admission price is around about £12 per person over the age of 2, so it worth a visit if you want a day out 

So  kent life is an open museum/farm located in the Maidstone area, Back in 1984 they restored a derelict farm  as a part of a open-air museum, it took them one year to restore the farm and open it up as what you see it a day, Some of the building are grade 2 listed buildings,

  sanding farmhouse, 

So it said that this is one of the original farm buildings, it said that the last tenant of the farm lived there up until their death  when they were 98 yrs old and died in 2001, it said that the building backdates to the sixteenth century 

Lenham cottages 

the building are grade 2 listed and was originally Threatened by a channel tunnel railway link. The cottage was offered to KL to save them, so between 1999 & 2001, the building was dismallated and rebuilt. By mid-2001 they were open to the public as part of the open-air museum 

Wagon Store  :  

This building was built for the open-air museum back in 1993 - the photo below you  see is the forge located back at the wagon store and it was re-created for people to see.

Pets farmhouse 

So it said that its a grade 2 listed building and it's a late 18th-century farmhouse  There not much history that can be found on this house 

Chapel 

 So the chapel was originally built in cuxton in 1897 out of timber frame and it was donated to the museum in 20000s