Catalogue description Deeds of 1-2 Seymour Cottages, Pottery Lane, Cackle Street, Brede (ESX 183436, ESX 225385, ESX 223408)
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Title: | Deeds of 1-2 Seymour Cottages, Pottery Lane, Cackle Street, Brede (ESX 183436, ESX 225385, ESX 223408) |
Description: |
The land on which the cottages stand was granted in 1761, described as: a piece or spot of ground (14 rods or perches) part of The Pound Field in Brede (E: malthouse of John Bourne the elder; S: road from Brede Pound to Sedlescombe; N: a pond; W: the remainder of The Pound Field), with the right for the purchaser, and any future inhabitants of the house which he intended to build, to take water from the pond, 'and to scour and cleanse the said pond when necessary or expedient for the sweetening and making the water in the said pond good and proper for use.' On 8 April 1740 Thomas Frewen of Brickwall in Northiam, esq, granted a lease of a malthouse and ten rods of land at Brede Pound, part of Frewen's Pound Field, to John Boorne of Brede, yeoman, to hold for 99 years at the rent of a shilling (3). On 10 April 1761 Henry Richardson the elder of Brede, gent, who had acquired Frewen's Pound Field and other property, granted a 99-year lease of another part of Pound Field, described as above, to William Sutton of Brede, husbandman, who paid Richardson £5 5s 0d; the term was to run from 25 March 1761 and the rent was a shilling (1-2). In 1799 Sutton agreed to sell his house and land for £70 to his neighbour John Bourne, who had also agreed to purchase the freehold reversion of the lease of his malthouse for £2. On 25 November 1799 William Sutton assigned the remainder of the term to Henry Richardson's son, executor and residuary legatee John Richardson of Brede, gent, who enfeoffed Bourne of the freehold of both properties (3). On 28 March 1808 John Bourne sold the house, which he covenanted to repair as soon as possible, to Thomas Fullman of Northiam, husbandman, for £100 (4). By his will of 24 July 1806, Thomas Fullman had bequeathed his residuary estate to George Bishop of Northiam, gent, who renounced the executorship, with the result that letters of administration with the will annexed were granted to Fullman's son Thomas Fullman at Lewes on 27 July 1824 (5). On 20 and 21 April 1840 Thomas Fullman of Sittingbourne in Kent, carpenter, and his wife Admirum, sold the house and land, formerly occupied by George Piper, to Thomas Jarrett of Rye, labourer, and his trustee Horace Martin of Battle, gent, for £65; the eastern boundary was a house belonging to Mrs Miller (6-8). Thomas Jarrett died on 18 March 1863. By his will of 6 August 1856, he had bequeathed the house, then in two dwellings, to his first wife's son James Whatson of Brede, labourer, who died in his stepfather's lifetime, causing the bequest to lapse. On 29 April 1863 Stephen Blake of Brede, cooper, aged 75, who had known Jarrett since 1810 and had married his sister Philla before 1828, made a statutory declaration concerning the family of their brother Edward Jarrett of Brede by his first wife Susannah Gibbs and second wife Elizabeth Cuthbert, and identifying Jarrett's heir as William Jarrett, born at Brede in September 1862. Thomas Jarrett's will was proved at Lewes by James Henbrey of Iden, miller, on 22 May 1863 (9). On 7 July 1863 William Jarrett of Kingsnorth in Kent, labourer, conveyed the property, occupied by the widows of Thomas Jarrett and James Whatson, to George Tolhurst of Brede, grocer, for £110, of which £87 10s 0d was raised by mortgage to the trustees of the Rye, East Sussex and Kent Building Society (Jeremiah Smith, William Holt Chatterton and George Henry Edwards of Rye, esqs) (10-11). George Tolhurst of Sutton Valence near Staplehurst in Kent, grocer, sold the cottages to George Ditch the younger of Sheerness in Kent, carpenter, for £130; James Whatson's widow was referred to as Whatson otherwise Fisher. On 27 December 1869 Ditch sold the cottages, occupied by Widow Southerden and Enoch Weller, to Spencer Whatman of Brede, butcher, for £135 and £2 for the contents (12-13). Spencer Whatman of Brede, grazier, died on 17 April 1923 and his will of 19 March 1913 was proved by George Whatman of 60 Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards, butcher, Fred Stanley Whatman of 93 Battle Road, Silverhill, St Leonards, butcher and Caroline Whatman of Brede, spinster, on 25 August 1923. On 7 May 1924 they sold the house, then in three dwellings, one occupied by George Goodsell and the other two empty, to Mary Ann Apps, wife of James Apps of Brede, assistant grocer, for £160. On 26 July 1927 Mrs Apps, of The Cedars, Brede, sold the cottages for £450 to Marion Johnson of Bankside, Brede, spinster (14-15). By 1949 the westernmost cottage, known as 3 Seymour Terrace, had been sold to Alice Talbot, who conveyed it to Harold Webber on 13 May 1949 (18). On 1 September 1949 Miss Johnson sold the two easternmost cottages, described as 1 and 2 Seymour Terrace, to Harold Webber of 33 Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards, auctioneer and valuer, for £390; the conveyance incorporates a plan showing the detached lavatories and wash-house serving all three cottages, the division of the land to provide three gardens and the details of the internal divisions of the dwellings (16-17). On 12 June 1952 Harold Frederick Webber, then of 3 Seymour Terrace, house agent, mortgaged 1-3 Seymour Terrace, 23 Brook Street, Hastings (HT3620) and 7 North Street St Leonards (HT3147) to the Bexhill Building Society for £800 (18). Webber sold The Retreat [3 Seymour Terrace], Pottery Lane, Brede, to Doris Winifred English for £400 on 28 January 1953, 23 Brook Street, Hastings, to Olive Muriel Dixey for £150 on 29 July 1955 and repaid the mortgage on 11 November 1957 (18). Doris Winifred Rosemary English sold 3 Seymour Terrace, with land behind the houses, to Elaine Stanley Malden on 31 January 1955 (26). On 1 August 1958 Harold Webber sold 2 Seymour Cottages to Rufus James Packham, and 1 Seymour Cottages to Doreen Edith Goodson of St Nicholas, Pottery Lane, Brede, spinster, for £750 on 28 October 1958; Webber was by then of 5 Brook Street, Hastings (19-20). Miss Goodson obtained permission from Battle Rural District Council to add a single-story bathroom and bay window to the property; the plans were passed on 3 December 1958 (21-22). On 7 March 1970 Miss Goodson sold 1 Seymour Terrace, then called St Christophers, to Diana Elizabeth Seager of 76 Lexham Gardens, London W8, for £4350 (23). Julie Douglas-Smith purchased 1 Seymour Cottages on 7 January 1992; it was registered as ESX183436 (24). Rufus James Packham owned 2 Seymour Cottages until his death; it was purchased by Mark Smith of 2 Pottery Close, Brede, on 3 October 1997, and registered as ESX223408 (25). On 12 January 1998 Mark Smith and Julie Smith of 1 Seymour Terrace bought a piece of garden north-east of the pond, allotted to 3 Seymour Terrace in the division of 1949 (17), from the un-named owner of 3 Seymour Terrace; the land was registered as ESX225385 (26). On 11 December 2002 Philip Matthew Stocks and Kate Denise Stocks purchased 1 and 2 Seymour Terrace and the garden formerly attached to 3 Seymour Terrace; their title was registered on 3 January 2003 (27-29). |
Date: | 1761-2003 |
Held by: | East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives |
Former reference in its original department: | AMS 6651 |
Language: | English |
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