Your House and Mine |
Hilltop |
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Introduction
Map of Frieth Moor End Bramblings Astrea Merrydown Cottage Corner Cottage Moor's End Cottages Moor Gate House Underwood The Copse Fingest Road The Forge Folly Cottages The Willows Perrin Springs Lane Perrin Springs West's Cottages Ellery Rise Hilliers Lynden Cottage Frieth Hill Hillside Cottage Rowleys Pear Tree Cottage Hillside View The Platt Little Barlows Cutlers Cottage Yew Tree Cottage Little Cottage Barlows Birch Cottage Tedders / Rose Cottage The Old Stores The Yew Tree Inn Fairfield House Flint Cottage 1 Flint Cottage 2 Inglenook Middle Cottage Sunny Corner The Gables The Orchards Hilltop Cattons Mallards Hillswood The Old Parsonage White Gates The Laurels The Cottage The Firm Marlstone Westwood Bradstone Haylescroft The Niche Rivendell Summerhill Ashcroft Selborne The Ranch House Sara's Cottage The Cherries The Old School House Innings Road Collier's Farm Innings Gate Down the Lane Sunset Cottage Fermain Chilterns Rowan Cottage Creighton Cottage Apple Tree Old Well Cottage The Cottage Flat Roof Whitsun Backlins Red Kites Maidenscraft Spurgrove Lane Maidencraft Cottage September Cottage Spurgrove Cottage Gable End Willems Elder Barn Sunnydale |
Hilltop is the second house of that name on this plot. The first was built for Mr & Mrs Neighbour in 1886, he was coachman to Lord Parmoor and she sold china and glassware from the premises. As there was no refuse collection then, she piled the broken rejects at the bottom of the garden and some of it is still appearing. Mr Neighbour planted a hornbeam hedge round three sides of his plot and it is still growing there. The original cottage was on the right in this picture (behind the tree) and consisted of two-up and two-down and a wash-house lean-to at the lower left. The part on the left was added in two stages in the 20thC. Fred Barksfield bought the property in 1964 and subsequently sold the rear half of the long garden to Mr Packer. The property was let out as two flats for many years.
The original property was demolished and the present Hilltop dates from 1978. |
