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Episode 4 – Kent
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In each programme our duo are called in to solve the hidden history of a house, no matter how big or small, old or new.
Dr Nick Barratt is our archive specialist. Dr Jonathan Foyle is our architectural historian and archaeologist.
The date on the front of Stephen's medieval farmhouse called 'The Murrells' says 1687, but it is a listed building and believed to be much older.
Stephen has called in the Hidden House History team to see if they can work out the exact date his house was built.
Nick finds a 19th century diary by a local man named Robert Pocock in the archives at Maidstone county hall. The dairy records a fire in the nursery at a Mr. Murrells' in 1822.
Mick Worthington, the team's dendrochronologist and Jonathan examine wood samples from the attic, and they date the house at 1410 – more than two centuries older than the date above the door!
