(Alkham)

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.

LICENSEE LIST

COLLARD Thomas end of 1690's

MUMMERY John ????

MARSH Richard 1759+ (Kentish Post)

IVERSON Thomas 1792