Thatched House, Main Road
From Lacey Green History
Warren Row. The Bucks Herald. Report of Property Sale on Thursday August 1st 1889. Sold to Mr W Warren for £205.
Lot 3.
Five Brick, Slate and Thatched Cottages, with convenient out-offices and extensive gardens, situate at Lacey Green. Occupied by Messrs F Hickman, T. Janes, George Adams, W. Williams, and Mrs. Lacey.
For the above tenants click Free & Ada Mary Hickman...Thomas & Jane Janes...George & Alice Adams...Walter & Miriam Williams...
Mr & Mrs Bolton with children Michael and Nellie lived there
Jim Scully lived there after retiring from the RAF
In the late 1950s Ted & Mrs Simmons lived there.
The following refers to land that became Dry Hillocks :-
5th September 1958. Covenant. Between Peter Henry John Walker and Percy William Simmons, of the ‘Thatched House’, Main Road, Lacey Green.
To erect and maintain a 3 foot fence along the SE and SW boundaries of the plot.
The old cottage became a garage for Thatched House, Main Road which was further along the road. The garage was later demolished.
2nd December 1958 Conveyance. Percy William Simmons of 61 Lambert Road, Banstead, Surrey, instrument maker for chemists, sold to Maurice James Saunders of 6 Greenlands, Lacey Green, builder, for £500
Schedule. All that land frontage to Lacey Green Road of 73 feet with covenant to maintain boundary fence.
Research Note. This was now bare land. Maurice ‘Mosh’ and Trudy Saunders cleared the ground. Trudy spoke of the amount of rubble from the old flint cottage on the site. They built the house ‘Dry Hillocks’ on the site. The site of the old cottage/garage became the drive for ‘Dry Hillocks’. click Mosh & Trudy Saunders for their life story.