At the heart of Hoath House is a Tudor farmhouse which
was acquired by the Streatfeilds in the mid eighteenth
century as part of the Chiddingstone estate. When the
family came to live here at the end of the nineteenth
century it was still more or less the original, wealden
timber framed hall house. But to make more room for
large broods of children, friends and visitors, successive
generations have added rooms here and wings there,
more than doubling its size, and creating the charmingly
idiosyncratic and romantic house that it remains today.