SOUTH EAST Regional Summary
Farmstead Types
Loose courtyard plans are the predominant type and can exhibit considerable differences in scale, particularly between arable and wood-pasture landscapes. Dispersed plans are concentrated in areas of ancient enclosure (especially the Weald) and on the heathland fringes where small farms with few buildings were usual.
Longhouses are unknown in the South East Region and linear plans are rare.
| An aisled barn attached in-line to the farmhouse. Linear plan farmsteads are unusual in the South East Region. (High Weald) |  |
Regional Context Content
South East Local Character Summaries
- 81 Greater Thames Estuary
- 86 South Suffolk and North Essex Clayland
- 88 Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands
- 90 Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge
- 91 Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge
- 95 Northamptonshire Uplands
- 107 Cotswolds
- 108 Upper Thames Clay Vales
- 109 Midvale Ridge
- 110 Chilterns
- 112 Inner London
- 113 North Kent Plain
- 114 Thames Basin Lowlands
- 115 Thames Valley
- 116 Berkshire and Marlborough Downs
- 119 North Downs
- 120 Wealden Greensand
- 121 Low Weald
- 122 High Weald
- 123 Romney Marshes
- 124 Pevensey Levels
- 125 South Downs
- 126 South Coast Plain
- 127 Isle Of Wight
- 128 South Hampshire Lowlands
- 129 Thames Basin Heaths
- 130 Hampshire Downs
- 131 New Forest
- 132 Salisbury Plain and West Wiltshire Downs
- 133 Blackmoor Vale and Vale of Wardour
- 135 Dorset Heaths
Regional Character Summaries
- South East
- East n/a
- North East n/a
- North West n/a
- Yorkshire and Humber n/a
- East Midlands n/a
- West Midlands n/a
- South West n/a
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