Old House Inn and 'Darenth Cottages' attached

Darenth Cottages & Old House at Home Pub. Originally a tied house to the Swan Brewery of Watkins and Son, when this was bought out and closed by Ben Bushell of The Black Eagle brewery in 1897, 'The Old House' became a purveyor of Westerham Ales. Sited in Quebec Square, The Old House is now a private residence, and the adjoining row of back-to-back cottages are no longer extant.

This photograph taken circa 1891 shows the two ‘Darenth Cottages’ attached to the Old House Inn on the edge of Quebec Square. Photographic evidence has these cottages still extant after the first World War, but gone by the early 1930s when the resultant vacant land was absorbed by Harry Langridge’s ‘Darenth Nursery’