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Friends of Woking Palace |
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Wey and Lea Cottages part one |
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Wey Cottage and Lea Cottage, Church Street, Old Woking, GU22 9JE TQ021569 LBII C16, C19, C20 WBC TM161 Owner James Hodd Occupier John Tickner Originally one house, now divided into the two cottages. The listing as detailed by Woking Borough Council on their website is:
House, now divided. C16 with C19 additions. Timber framed brick cladding to right, rendered to left; plain tiled roofs with stack to left of centre. Wey Cottage to left: 2 storeys with attic under tile hung dormer, flat band over ground floor, gable front bay to left. 3 C20 casement windows across the first floor; glazed door to left in catslide extension, further part glazed door to centre under gabled porch on brick piers. Timber frame exposed to rear. Lea Cottage to right: gable front break, 2 C20 casements across the first floor. Part glazed door in tiled gabled porch in wooden supports. Catslide to rear
The house(s) are likely to be mid 15th century given the crown post roofs.
This house appears on the John Holmes Map of 1709 now in the care of Surrey History Centre.. It can be seen below as the second house outside the lychgate of St Peter’s, the first house is the now demolished house of which No. 1 Church Cottages formed part.
The occupants according to the 1841-1901 census returns were probably:
1841 John Tickner, agricultural labourer and his wife Elizabeth plus James Daw brewer. 1851 John Tickner, agricultural labourer and his wife Elizabeth plus David Harwood plumber and glazier and Thomas Sherlock cordwainer, both visitors. 1861 John Tickner, labourer, his wife Elizabeth and James Ottaway groom. |
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