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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 |
The Cottage is another of Frieth's very old properties. The date carved in the fireplace "1574" is a 20th Century addition and may not be correct. The Cottage was two semi-detached units until about thirty years ago [ i.e. about 1971 ]. The one faced with Tudor style herringbone brickwork had some interior walls of wattle and daub construction. The other cottage is a much later addition. [ A recent report on The Cottage http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-988-1/dissemination/pdf/johnmoor1-80312_1.pdf (which itself references this page) confirms that the oak lintel over the fireplace is 20th Century. But the question remains: why was 1574 carved there? Was the lintel a replacement for an older one which carried that date? The report does confirm that the wood framed part of the cottage is "16th Century or older" ] In "Frieth a Chiltern Village" there is a photo of an elderly lady named Mrs Martin, a lacemaker who lived in one of these two cottages circa 1900. An amusing dialectual misinterpretation comes from 1930 when a Mrs Entwistle came from "Up North" to live in one of these cottages on being appointed to teach at Frieth School. Soon after moving in Mr Entwistle was walking down the road when he met a local man who asked his name. "Entwistle" he replied. The Friethian looked puzzled and asked "Well, why shun't it be Whistle?" |
