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A typical small enclosure from the manorial waste lying as it does on the apex of the road junction. The cottage itself is an interesting small dwelling of the period. There are other very similar dwellings in the parish, possibly Thomas Adams, a carpenter, was employed to construct them all. However carpentry was not his only trade. In his will Thomas Adams left this property to his wife Mary, together with the carpenter's shop he occupied, which cannot be identified and may not have been on this site. It is tempting to suggest that it might have been the unnumbered building shown on the opposite side of the road on the tithe map. Possibly more significantly Thomas also left her his 'barge and horse with all belonging thereto'. In 1804 he was recorded as owning a barge on the Upper Ouse Navigation, The Victory traded between Uckfield (Shortbridge) and Lewes. The principal cargo was marl, chalk and timber etc (66). Traces of the canal locks can still be seen near Barcombe Mills. The navigation, never a particularly successful enterprise, was finally eclipsed by the advent of the railway. Although the original grant was for a cottage and land, the 1838 manor court records the sale of the property to Fuller with 'a messuage lately erected', Such phrases are difficult to interpret - it could refer to a house that was only 40 years old or it may imply that a new house had replaced an earlier dwelling on the plot. |
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