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HENFIELD THEN AND NOW

pesketts - patchings

Pesketts - now renamed Patchings, stands in Nep Town Road, on the right just past Tipnoak. It's a Grade II Listed Building described as follows:

L-shaped C17 or earlier timber-framed building with the timbering and painted brick or herring-bone brick nogging exposed in the east and west walls but south front refaced with red brick and grey headers and partly tile-hung. Half-hipped gable. Horsham slab roof. Casement windows. Blocked original window in east wall. Two storeys. Four windows.

The 1841 census gives the occupant as 45-year old carpenter William Monnery and family, together with agricultural labourer George Virgae and family. In 1901, the main occupant of Pesketts was 57-year old farm carter George Knight and his family. The census is unclear, but it seems that the house was also occupied by 59-year Henry Granger, an engine driver, and 76-year old Richard Reeves, a retired wheelwright.

Neither of the views described below and shown in the photographs can be seen today, for Patchings (Pesketts) is surrounded by a high wall.

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Pesketts: This black & white photo was taken in 1875.

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Pesketts: Pesketts in 1890.

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Patchings: The house as it is now - photographed in February 2016. Part of the garden on the north side was sold and is now the site of a house next door in Hewitts.

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