Lane Cottage, Loosley Row

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Lane Cottage, Loosley Row. research by Joan West from family biography and deeds lent by Joyce Walker. Very much appreciated. Thanks Joyce.

Lane Cottage was created in 1952, when two cottages were made into one house. click Lane Cottage no.1 and Lane Cottage no. 2 for their previous history

THE LAND

The land on which the first of Lane Cottages was built had been let by the Manor of Princes Risborough until the enclosures of Princes Risborough in 1823.  

The first cottage was built in 1820.

1823 ENCLOSURES

The Land with the cottage on it was part of a large allotment to Peter Tyler in the 1823 Enclosures.  The part plot referred to was purchased from Peter Tyler by Henry Janes in 1863/4. (click Henry & Mary Janes for Henry's life story)

Henry built on the plot for himself and his family a house with a shop and bread oven and started a bakers business.

In 1868 he attached Lane Cottage no. 2 to the first one.  They were on this same piece of land but set back from the road, whereas the bakery was on the road (later to be named ‘Lower Road’, Loosley Row).   These became known as Lane Cottage no.1 and Lane Cottage no. 2

Gift to the Baptists. In his will, Henry left a small piece of land, against the road, between the bakery and Lane Cottages, to his Baptist customers, upon which they built a Baptist Chapel. Henry himself attended the church in Lacey Green.

ANNIE INHERITS

Henry died in 1889, leaving the shop and Lane Cottages to his wife, then to daughter Annie now aged 23.   The following year Annie married George Floyd. See George & Annie Floyd.

1916.   Conveyance.  The executors of  Henry Janes and following the death of his wife, to Annie Elizabeth Floyd (George & Annie Floyd)

Numbers 1. Lane Cottages, click Lane Cottage no.1

Number 2. Lane Cottages, click Lane Cottage no. 2

EXECUTORS OF ANNIE FLOYD TO Albert Walker

3rd May 1952.   Conveyance.

Sold to Albert William Walker for £400 the 2 cottages known as nos 1 and 2 Lane Cottages together with the land adjoining. (Mr and Mrs Walker, nee Gomme, were currently tenants).

TWO INTO ONE

Albert Walker made the two cottages into one house.   Now called Lane Cottage. click Lane Cottage, Loosley Row for more

DEATH OF MR & MRS WALKER

Albert William Walker died 14^TH August 1959.   Florence Edith Rose Walker died 4^th March 1984.

LANE COTTAGE INHERITED by their daughter Joyce Rose Florence Walker.

Note by Joyce Walker.   Mrs Albert Walker, nee Florence Edith Rose Gomme, daughter of a Mr Randell, lived at Lane Cottage with her parents as a child.   She continued to live there during her marriage to Walter Stallwood, a soldier who died of pneumonia in 1924/5, she continued to live there until she married Albert William Walker about 1937.    They remained tenants of Lane Cottage until they purchased it in 1952.

Lane Cottage, Loosley Row
Construction Era	1700-1822, 1824-1899
Type of Property	Cottage
Use of Property
Locations	Loosley Row