Building record 1595900000 - Clover and Jasmine Cottages, Winchmore Hill

Site of 'Fagman's' house in a group of fields called respectively Fagman's Garden, Fagman's Orchard, Fagman's Wood and Hillfields. Here lived John Hunt, yeoman, who also had 'divers other lands in Beaconsfield and Penn' and in Coleshill. It had come to him from his brother Thomas, and their father, also John, had been in possession at Fagman's in 1604. John junior died childless in 1639, and his land passed to his widow, who was soon remarried to Joseph Routh, gentleman.
In 1840 one of these closes formed the curtilage of a house, which is still to be seen there. No doubt this was Fagman's Garden. The house is an eighteenth century building, now divided to form Jasmine and Clover Cottages, but the irregular outline of its curtilage suggests that there had been an earlier house on the site. It seems legitimate to call this Fagman's. In the 1660s it was let to, and occupied by, Francis Hull, and had two heated rooms. If the present house, as is often the case, stands on the footings of its predecessor, Fagman's was c. 28' x 14' (8.6 x 4.3 m) (B1).
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