Pullins Green
Number 12
Houses
No. 1 Pullins Green
No. 2 Pullins Green
No. 3 Pullins Green
No. 4 Pullins Green
No. 5 Pullins Green
No. 6 Pullins Green
No. 7 Pullins Green
No. 8 Pullins Green
No. 9 Pullins Green
No. 10 Pullins Green
No. 11 Pullins Green
No. 12 Pullins Green
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13 Pullins Green
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15 Pullins Green
No. 17 Pullins Green
No. 19 Pullins Green
No. 21 Pullins Green
No. 23 Pullins Green
No. 25 Pullins Green
St John Street
Sawmill Lane
Crispin Lane
Number 12 is the house on the left hand end of the row of six old cottages facing the old smithy on Pullins Green. We are not sure when they were built. We have heard that they were built in the early 19th century for quarry workers, but we have not yet found any evidence to support this theory. The cottages were listed in the 1840 Tithe Survey when they were owned by Daniel Burchell, a carpenter then living in St Mary Street. We have heard that it may have been Daniel who built the cottages.
The cottages were owned by the Burchell family for a long time. Number 12 is different from the other five - in 1909/10 when rents of about eight pounds per year being paid to Frederick Henry Burchell for each of the other five cottages, the tenant of number 12 had to pay over nine pounds. This house is slightly larger than the others.
We have heard that the houses were later acquired by Charlie Davis, the builder, although number 12 was sold and is now owned by the occupier.
By the 1960's, the other rented houses had fallen into disrepair and lacked modern amenities. They were at one stage condemned by the Council. They were however saved and the Council chose to renovate and modernise them as part of the town centre development which took place in the 70's.
The Occupants
Although the Tithe Survey lists the occupiers of the six houses in 1840, it
does not make it clear who is living in each house. The six people
were: John Screen, Charles Owen Pearce (a cordwainer), Mary Jackson, Mary Langobeare,
Mary Olive and John Birt. In many cases like this, we can link
people to houses by using the 1841 census. However in this case it is
difficult to link the names in the census to any of these houses and none of
the people listed in this census (or the 1851 census) are the same as those
listed in the Tithe Survey.
The first person we know to have occupied the house is therefore based on the 1851 census.
Click here to see details of the other occupants of the house
This page was last updated: 26/03/2008