The Quadrangle: Kent
The Quadrangle is a Victorian model farmstead close to Shoreham in Kent.
The farmstead, built in 1870, was intended to be a model of modern farming ideas, animal husbandry and efficiency. In the 1970’s it was bought by the environmental planner Mark Lintell, who began to restore and convert it. It now includes two living spaces, a dormitory, three commercial workshops and a large central barn with a timber floor and gallery. The garden runs down through an orchard to the river Darent and a field and woodland beyond.
Mark Lintell owned half the complex up until his death in 2006 and it has now been transferred to the Quadrangle Trust.
The Quadrangle Trust’s aim is to:
Create a unique ecologically designed, socially mixed centre for environmental and creative education and facilitated learning.
Develop and nurture appropriate, inclusive relationships with the local and wider community.
Offer educational experiences that help steer people towards contributing to an ecologically and socially sustainable society.
It’s setting in the Darent valley is extraordinarily rural and peaceful given how close it is to London- as the crow flies it is 20 miles from Piccadilly Circus.
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