Oakhurst Cottage
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Oakhurst Cottage is a tiny 16th or 17th-century cottage in Hambledon, Surrey, in the United Kingdom. It is a Grade II listed building.<ref name="nhle">Template:Cite web</ref>
The cottage was given to the National Trust in 1954, and occupied until 1983. It has been restored to illustrate the dwelling of a labourer in the Victorian era.
History
The building may have originally been a barn.<ref name="britexpress">Template:Cite web</ref> The cottage as it exists now was built in the 16th or 17th century. It was occupied until the 1980s,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and has since been restored and furnished to illustrate an example of a labourer's cottage.<ref name="nt">Template:Cite web</ref>
The cottage was given to the National Trust in 1954 by the Allfrey sisters but was lived in by their tenants Elsie and Ted Jeffrey until Ted's death in 1983.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Its garden is filled with plants that were popular during the Victorian era.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Such is its size that Oakhurst Cottage can only be viewed by appointment, and by groups of no more than six people at a time.<ref name="nt"/>
Architecture
The two-storey building has a timber frame and a tiled roof. The infill between the timbers is colourwashed brick.<ref name="nhle"/> There is a chimney to one side and a wing at the back.<ref name="nhle"/> In the quarry-tiled kitchen is a large brick hearth beneath an oak beam,<ref name="britexpress"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> with examples of china and household implements which may have been used in a similar house.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The bedrooms are accessed by a narrow staircase into the attic. These have two gabled dormer windows with some old glass in diamond-pane leading.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In the garden is an outhouse which housed the toilet,<ref name="britexpress"/> and a small barn with a collection of garden and workmen's tools.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
References
External links
- Oakhurst Cottage - official site at National Trust