Sturmer Local History Group

Year

Family/description of house

Evidence

1796

Built for use as Maltings – walls 20” deep filled with anything at hand at the time

Millennium Memoir  (MM)- ? date on rear of building

Barley dried for beer here .  Beer was used instead of water as water not safe to drink

1700s

Briarley (possible mid 16thc) thatch reroofed with slate

MM

1805

Shown on map

Cassini

1841

Maltings and Orchard owned by Harry Purkis

Tithe map and apportionment

1847

H Purkis – Maltster – Abbots

Were the Maltings part of the Abbots Hall estate – to be checked at ERO as part of Abbots Hall House History

Whites Directory

1841 and 51

No residents in census as still in use as Maltings?

Kellys Directory

Whites Directory

1876

Range of buildings shown

Ordnance survey

1876

?Converted to housing

?Date on building which fronts on to main road

Row of flint cottages – dirt floor and beams

1881

1. 1.    Sunday School House

Census

1. 2.    George Mayes – ag lab - 32

1. 3.    James Boutell

1. 4.    Uninhabited

1. 5.    George Burley

1. 6.    Frederick Claydon 

1. 7.    David Claydon - 37

1. 8.    Harry -  36 and Charlotte Mason

1891

1. 1.    -

1. 2.    -

1. 3.    Mary Peck

1. 4.    Susannah Dillistone

1. 5.    William Denny

1. 6.    Harry Cowle - 34

1. 7.    David Claydon - 47

1. 8.    Harry Mason – 46 and Charlotte – 46 x3

1892

Purkis – chief landed proprietors – Abbots Hall

Kelly’s Directory

1901

1. 1.    -

Census

1. 2.    William Ridgewell – 65 – Ag Lab

1. 3.    William – 46 and Annie Payne – 45 x 5 - Tailor

1. 4.    William Jo Lee – 32 – Widow - ? Coachsmith

1. 5.    James – 31 and Fanny Cowle – 31 x2

1. 6.    Harry Cowle (Cole) – 44 x 6 Builder Carter

1. 7.    David – 57 and Emily – 55 Claydon x6 Weaver

1. 8.    George – 74 – Harry – 56 and Charlotte – 56 Mason x2 – Builder Labourer

1904

Range of buildings shown next to allotments (now built on)

Ordnance survey map

1911

1 and 2 Malting House (house fronting main road/Briarley)

George Mayes – 62 – Ag Lab

Sarah Ruse – 77 Widow

Census

3. Post Office

Annie Payne – 54 – Post Mistress

4. George Sizer – 53 - Newsagent

5. James Cowle – 41 – Plate Layer – Railway Co.

6. Harry Cowle – 54 – Farm Labourer

7. David Claydon – 67 – Cloth Hair Weaver

8. Harry Mason – 66 – General Labourer - Widow

1917

Sold as part of Abbots Hall estate

Malting Cottages

8 Freehold

Flint,brick and slate

G. Mayes

Empty

C. Payne

G. Sizer

J. Cowle

H. Cowle

D. Clayden

H. Mason

Yearly tenants with 3 months notice to quit

£3 10s;£3 5s;£7 5s;

£5 (3);£5 10s (2)

Landlord pays rates

Brick and tile washhouse included in this lot

Sales catalogue for Abbots Hall

1912 - 20

1.-

Carol Canter

2.-

3.-

4. George Sizer

5.-

6. Harry Cowle

7. David Claydon

8.Harry Mason

1920

1. 1.    George Mayes

Carol Canter

1. 2.    Lily Crips

1. 3.    Cicil and Jayne Payne

1. 4.    George – 61 and Esther – 59 Sizer

1. 5.    Ethel Claydon

1. 6.    Harry – 63 and Harriet Cole (Cowle)- 60

1. 7.    David – 76 – Emily – 74 and John Claydon - 34

1. 8.    Harry Mason - 75

1920s

War memorial erected near cottages

Picture shows front of cottages and allotments opposite

1926

Ernest Alfred Pask and Emma Jane Pask moved into cottages

MM

1929

1. 1.    George and Deborah Mayes

Carol Canter

1. 2.    Lily Crips

1. 3.    Jane Payne – Mary Ann

1. 4.    George Sizer

1. 5.    Ethel Claydon

1. 6.    Harry Cowle – 63 and Harriet - 60

1. 7.    George and Rachel Cowle

1. 8.    Alfred and Emma Paske

After 1945

Harry Pask married Sylvia and kept cottages in good order, modernising them and providing income for Mrs Pask senior.

Millennium Memoir

1940s/50s

6. Believed to have been a sweet shop around same time as Station Corner Cottages was a post office

MM

1950s

1.-

Carol Canter

2. Mayes

3. -

4. Lily Clark

5. -

6. Cole

7. -

8.Ernie Paske and Harry Paske (son) – Blacksmith and wheelwright – wood and metal

Remembered by Paul Sadler of Dearsley

1959

1. 1.    Derek and June Harrison

Carol Canter

1. 2.    Lily Clark (Betty’s mother)

1. 3.    Joe and Betty Crips

1. 4.    Edward and Sheila Sisson

1. 5.    Payne

1. 6.    Bryant

1. 7.    Mrs Paske (Snr)

1. 8.    Harry Paske

1970s

1 and 2 – Derek and June Harrison

3. and 4. Now Garages – Joe and Betty Crips

5. Pearn and Lewis

6. Edward and Sheila Sisson

1. 7.  Enid Shipp

8.Harry Paske

1970s/80s

Cottages sold and bungalow at back of Pear Tree Cottages was built

2000

5. Flint porch and new driveway added

MM

2012 to date

1 and 2 David and ? Taylor – now called Briarley

3. Wright

4. Garage

5. Carol and Colin Canter - Handyman

6. Sheila Sisson

7. Enid Shipp - retired

8.Gordon Clarke

2014

Range of buildings shown

Ordnance Survey

Year

Family/description of house

Evidence

1600s

Built

British Listed Buildings website

?House used for tannery?

Hooks around house for skins and leather ball found in barn – Maddy Gray/Sara Horncastle

1800s

Altered

ditto

1841

Trumps Farm – messuage, gdn

Owner – Purkiss

Occupier - Ruse

Tithe map and apportionment

1841

Rutland Ruse, wife and 4 sons in village – Harness maker

Census

1851

Rutland Ruse – Saddler and shoemaker

Trade directory 1,2, and 3

1856

Rutland Ruse - Saddler

Trade directory 4

1857

Rutland Ruse

British Postal Service

1861

Rutland Ruse, wife and 2 sons in village - ? maker

Census

1871

Rebeckah Ruse, son (Harry) and boarder – Grocer, draper and harness maker

Census

1876

Post Office

OS map

1881

Harry Ruse, wife, 3 sons and 2 daughters in village – Harness maker

Census

1891

George Ince and wife in village - Grocer

Census

1911

Census - tbc

1917

Henry Gower

Yearly rental £7 12s

Known as “Old Post Office”

Ground floor shop, large sitting room, 8 bedrooms on first floor

Close by range, lean to,coal shed, stabling and shop

Abbots Hall Sales Catalogue

1918

Arthur Chevalier Purkis (vendor) to Edward Graham and Charles and Ethel Boardman (purchasers)

Abstract of title - ? Abbotts Hall buildings?

1930s?

Does’ Village Shop

Reg Mead – Oral history -

he drove pony and trap for deliveries and remembers pig in garden for sausage making

1940s and 50s

Village shop

SVN article from Maggy Chapman

List of contents from Williams and Todd – sausage maker, scales etc

Barn used for sale of paraffin for lighting

SVN article from Maggy Chapman

?Barn used for bicycle repairs by Percy Coote in earlier years?

Local stories

ditto

Shop interior

Picture in archives of slhg

1948

John Theobold Boardman and William Gurteen Parsons (vendors) to John Doe (purchaser)

Abstract of title

1948

Mrs A E Doe

Abstract of title

1949

Miss D Williams

ditto

1965

C.F. Davies to Ackerley

ditto

1966

Mr and Mrs D Ackerley to Gelder

ditto

1968

CWJ Gelder to Mr T Randall

ditto

1968

Application for change of name to Post Office Stores previously known as Post Office/Doe Cottage

Documents held by occupant in 2016

1979

Randall to ?

ditto

1984

Listed Grade II

British Listed Buildings website

2000 to 2014

Maddy and David Gray

Local knowledge

Barn restored by David Gray

ditto

2014 to present

Sara Horncastle and Bill Tickner

ditto

2016

For sale

ditto