Wimble End Cottage No 3

Research by Joan West taken from the Deeds, lent by Rob Knight of Wimble End. (A photocopy of the Deeds is archived in Lacey Green Village Hall)

Three Cottages Erected About 1759.

The house called Wimble End for many years was three attached cottages, to find the cottage in the middle of the three click Wimble End Cottage No 2

To find the middle cottage of the three click Wimble End Cottage No 2. For the cottage on the north of the three click Wimble End Cottage No 1

History Known

John Redrup of Great Hampden purchased two of the freehold cottages. In 1823. The Enclosures of Princes Risborough, Cottage no 3 was listed as belonging to William Stone.

Mortgages

John Redrup took out the following mortgages for the cottages. In 1821 with George Lintell. in 1823 with John Carter Dell. John Carter Dell was the mortgagee in 1823 at the time of the Enclosures of Princes Risborough, he is listed as the owner(mortgagee) of Allotment no 697a Smithy adjoining Wimble End Cottages, also 699, the three cottages with a garden and orchard. In 1830 the mortgages were taken over by again by George Lintell, (possibly George Lintell Jnr).

15th February 1850. On the death of George Lintell, mortgagee, his executors foreclosed on the mortgages and the cottages were put up for sale by John Redrup.

15 February 1850 Conveyances

Lot 1. February 15^th 1850    Conveyance.   John Redrup of Great Hampden, blacksmith to John Paine of Longwick, mealman. (a photocopy of this indenture is archived in Lacey Green Village Ha

CENSUS 1841

Cottage no. 3south.   Jacob Janes 40 ag. lab, Hannah 30, Benjamin 9, Edith 4, Abel 6 months

CENSUS 1851

Cottage no. 3 south   Thomas Stone 73 widow infirm, John 30 son. ?

CENSUS 1861

Cottage no. 3 south.   Simeon Free 35 sandstone cutter, Elizabeth 36 lacemaker, Adelaide Loosley daughter-in-law.    

CENSUS 1871

Cottage no. 3 south.   William Claydon 27 ag. Lab, Mary 33 lacemaker, Sarah 6, Enos, 4 months

CENSUS 1881

Cottage no. 3 south.   Abel Rixon 39 ag. lab, Caroline 38, lacemaker, Alice 18 lacemaker, Sarah 13 lacemaker, Dan 11, Rose 9, Agnes 7, George 5, Albert 2.

Date not confirmed. Conveyance. The Executors of John Paine sold cottages nos. 2 and 3 to Sarah West

CENSUS 1891

Cottage no. 3 south.   Sarah West 67 widow lacemaker.

CENSUS 1901

Cottage no. 3 south.   Sarah West 76 widow living on her own means.

9th December 1901. Conveyance. The Reverend William Robson purchased from Sarah West cottages Nos 2 & 3.

The Reverend William Robson now owned all three cottages and now made them into one house, naming it “Wimblehurst”. It was later called 'Wimble End'.

Wimble End Cottage No 3
Construction Era	1700-1822, 1823 Enclosures Record
Type of Property	Cottage
Use of Property	Residential
Locations	Lacey Green