Hets Orchard

The close called Hets Orchard was built off Kiln Lane, Lacey Green in the 1970s.. It had been for many years the ste of a cottage called Hets Loo.

CENSUS 1911

Arnold de Beer 71 born Rotterdam, Holland, Dutch, living on own means, Irene Augusta de Beer 66 born Hull, Yorkshire, Henrietta Amelia de Beer, daughter 45 born Wolson, Staffs, Charles Cecil Ernest de Beer 31, son born in France, British, Beatrice R  Doriane 30 daughter, born France, British, Roland Charles Doriane, son in law, born London, essential oil importer, Eilene Cecily Adam, granddaughter, 8 born London

Research Note. “Hets Loo” is a Royal Palace in Holland, built in 1686, advertised as “The most Stunning Palace in Holland”   It is open to the public.   Arnold de Beer from Holland came to Lacey Green in time to be recorded in the 1911 census here.   In 1901 he had been in London.

Reseach note by Dennis Claydon. - "Now an entrance drive into Hets Loo from Kiln Lane, not far from the Main Road, followed the present course of the private drive into “Hets Orchard’. At the entrance stood two brick piers, supporting wooden gates, which had been produced from ship’s timbers. A very small plaque recorded the ship’s name and its home port of Bristol.

A tall hedge surrounded the land facing Main Road. In springtime the Orchard was a mass of daffodils. A ‘wartime’ baby of the Second World War was evacuated from Essex to Kiln Lane. In the years following, as a very young girl, holidays were spent in Kiln Lane. One lasting memory of that time are the daffodils in the orchard of ‘Hets Loo’. The house was demolished in the early 1970’s to make way for a development of six properties, known as ‘Hets Orchard with access onto Kiln Lane.

Comment. Hets Loo, Lacey Green. This now 7- roomed cottage had not previously been named.   Now the cottage, previously lived in by agricultural labourers and lacemakers  was named after a royal palace.