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16. Lavender Cottage over Four Centuries
DIANE SPEAKMAN

(Continued)

Date Owner/tenant House known as
1905­10 John Brown, farmer of Little Thurlow Myrtle Cottage, 'which messuage was aforetime occupied as a Rectory house for the parish of Little Bradley and has long been known as Little Bradley Rectory, but is now in the occupation of the said John Brown and is called by him "Myrtle Cottage"'
1910­11
  Georgina Sybil Reynolds, d. of John Brown, and wife of Wm Reynolds of Gt Thurlow, farmer, sale to (£300)
 
1911­29 Revd F.W. Taylor, Rector of Little Bradley
(d. 1929), owner, Frances, his wife, son Adrian
and daughter Vivienne
Myrtle Cottage [3] 1926; assent to Myrtle Cottage as double tenement (i.e. coachhouse became part of messuage)
1929­47 Frances Taylor  
1938 Dr E.B. Sunderland rented two rooms in coach house as surgery and waiting room ­ lease for 21 years at annual rent of £5  
1947 Frances Taylor sale to (£2100) Lavender Cottage (LC)
1947­54
Louisa Webster
leasehold to (£2750)
Lavender Cottage 'formerly Myrtle Cottage'
1954
Anne Jane Myfanwy Rake
sale freehold (£3470) to
St David's 'formerly coachhouse and stable, now used as medical surgery'
1956
Brigadier R.L.Taverner
sale to
St David's
1959­77
R.A. Vestey, owner Sir John
Mowbray,
Dr Burton, etc., rented house or surgery
sale to (£23,000)
Lavender Cottage
1977­83
Mr & Mrs May, owner
sale to (£61,000)
Lavender Cottage (coachhouse / surgery now as garages)
1983 Diane Speakman & Jeremy Mynott,
co-owners
Lavender Cottage (garages rebuilt as self-contained annexe, The Loft)

Taken from page 87

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