ROSE COTTAGE

Simple detached cottage, with three bedrooms a bath and shower room upstairs, living room, den and walk through kitchen down stairs. The earlier house on this site was called Vauncies after John Vauncey who had a messuage here in 1344. It changed hands fairly regularly until 1570 when Anthony Padnall became the tenant. The Parish Register gives two instances of babies born there; ‘a nurst child out of Anthony Padnel’s house’ and ‘a strange child, her mother lay in Antony Padnals’. Was this an early maternity hospital? The present house was converted from a non-domestic building using re-used timber and is therefore impossible to date. Its later tenants include John Grocer, a linen-weaver who died in 1676 leaving the house to Stephen Windout whose sister Hannah was to ‘have the parlor and parlor chamber for herself, her husband and company. Also access to the yard to fetch water from the pond, to hang linen and set wood and to have half the fruit from the new orchard on the east side of the house’. Samuel Darkangel, a tailor and great great grandfather became the tenant in 1695 who on passing, passed it down the family now it belongs to Jenna.