P113/10 2007 The Old Butcher's Shop, 1-3 The Chestnuts (TA 898.5, 901.5) Preston Cottage now built on land in Birdshole Lane (TA 872)

NB. Later evidence makes it clear that Henry Austen owned TA 901.5. The tithe apportionment incorrectly attributes the number William Adams but in fact his property was TA 901.

The copyhold grant at Barcombe Cross is a typical example of an enclosure from the manorial waste; typically a long narrow strip of land adjacent to a highway. In common with others of the smaller tenements at Barcombe Cross is served at some time as the poor house.

The cottage in Birdshole Lane, described as 'late Handlye Common' is unusual. Leasehold tenements are rare and ill-recorded in the court books. Although there was a dwelling on the land in Birdshole Lane in 1686 the house site had been abandoned by 1800 and the dwelling had not been replaced in 1840. A new house was built sometime between c1880 and 1891.
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Tenement

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Tithe Data

Birds Hole
Ref: B0872
Landowner: Henry Austen
Occupier: Henry Austen
Cultivation: arable
A.R.P. 00.0.32

1841 Census
Yes

Tenement Analysis
Yes

Buildings
No

Archaeology
No

Old Maps
No

Further Information
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