Oakhurst Cottage
| Oakhurst Cottage | |
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National Trust | |
|---|---|
 Oakhurst Cottage, Hambledon | |
| Grid reference: | SU965380 |
| Location: | 51°7’58"N, -0°37’26"W |
| Built 16th century | |
| Information | |
| Website: | Oakhurst Cottage |
Oakhurst Cottage is a tiny 16th or 17th-century cottage in Hambledon, in Surrey. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
The cottage was given to the National Trust in 1954, and occupied until 1983. It has been restored to illustrate the dwelling of a labourer in the Victorian era.
History
The building may have originally been a barn.[2] The cottage as it exists now was built in the 16th or 17th century. It was occupied until the 1980s.[3]
The cottage has since been restored and furnished to illustrate an example of a labourer's cottage.[4]
The cottage was given to the National Trust in 1954 by the Allfrey sisters but was lived in by their tenants Elsie and Ted Jeffrey until Ted's death in 1983.[5] Its garden is filled with plants that were popular during the Victorian era.[6] Such is its size that Oakhurst Cottage can only be viewed by appointment, and by groups of no more than six people at a time.[4]
Architecture
The two-storey building has a timber frame and a tiled roof. The infill between the timbers is colourwashed brick.[1] There is a chimney to one side and a wing at the back.[1] In the quarry-tiled kitchen is a large brick hearth beneath an oak beam,[2][7] with examples of china and household implements which may have been used in a similar house.[8] The bedrooms are accessed by a narrow staircase into the attic. These have two gabled dormer windows with some old glass in diamond-pane leading.[9]
In the garden is an outhouse which housed the toilet,[2] and a small barn with a collection of garden and workmen's tools.[10]
Outside links
- Oakhurst Cottage: National Trust
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 National Heritage List 1240216: Oakhurst
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Oakhurst Cottage: Britain Express
- ↑ "Oakhurst Cottage is a 16th century hidden gem in the Surrey Hills". Surrey Live. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/oakhurst-cottage-16th-century-hidden-17720470. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Oakhurst Cottage: National Trust
- ↑ "Oakhurst Cottage, Surrey, England". Geni. https://www.geni.com/projects/Oakhurst-Cottage-Surrey-England/26435. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ↑ [http://www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk/?page_id=47 Hambledon Village: Oakhurst Cottage
- ↑ Greeves, Lydia (2006). History and Landscape: The Guide to National Trust Properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. National Trust Books. p. 281. ISBN 978-1905400133.
- ↑ "Oakhurst Cottage and Hambledon, Surrey". National Trust Collections. http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/results?Collections=af1c6af6fffffe0736b1466704f5dffb. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ↑ "Oakhurst, Cricket Green, Hambledon". Exploring Surrey's Pasr. https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/collections/getrecord/SHHER_12367. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ↑ "Oakhurst Cottage, Hambledon, Surrey". miladysboudoir. https://miladysboudoir.net/2016/10/06/oakhurst-cottage-hambledon-surrey/. Retrieved 8 March 2020.