MANORS.
The statement that land at Wanstead
was given to Westminster Abbey by Alfric in 1065
comes from a spurious charter, not supported by
other evidence. (fn. 1) In 1086 the manor of WANSTEAD, comprising one hide, was held of the
bishop of London by Ralph son of Brian. (fn. 2) It was
said to have belonged formerly to the canons of St.
Paul's, but that statement has been questioned. (fn. 3) The
overlordship of the manor subsequently descended
with the see of London. (fn. 4) After the death of Ralph
son of Brian the tenancy in demesne appears
to have been split between his two sons, Brian
FitzRalph and Jordan de Briset (or Jordan FitzRalph), the founder of Clerkenwell Priory. (fn. 5) The
grandson of Brian FitzRalph, also called Brian
FitzRalph, was holding ½ hide at Wanstead in
1210–12. (fn. 6) The other half of the manor seems to
have been divided on the death of Jordan de
Briset between his daughters, Lettice, wife of
Henry Foliot, Emme, wife of Reynold de Ginges,
and Maud. (fn. 7) Maud's share passed to Robert Brito,
who before 1176 subinfeudated it to Hugh of
Hesdin (or Hosdeng). (fn. 8) Before 1182 Brito conveyed
his rights in the property, including a capital
messuage and a mark's rent, to Clerkenwell Priory,
which thus became the intermediate tenant between
the bishop and Hugh of Hesdin. (fn. 9) Hugh of Hesdin
or his heirs probably secured the demesne tenancy
of the whole of the manor. His son held the advowson of Wanstead in 1208, (fn. 10) and in 1242 his grandson
owed service to Sir Ralph de Ginges, presumably
in respect of Emme de Ginges's share of the manor. (fn. 11)
Hugh of Hesdin was succeeded by his son Ralph
of Hesdin, who in 1197 acknowledged his service
due to the nuns of Clerkenwell for 1/6 knight's fee
in Wanstead. (fn. 12) Ralph (d. 1222) was succeeded by
his son Hugh of Hesdin. (fn. 13) Hugh (d. 1242) held at
the time of his death extensive lands in Wanstead
and (East ?) Ham, including 169 a. in demesne and
20 a. meadow. (fn. 14) His widow Alice was granted custody of his lands in Essex and Buckinghamshire. (fn. 15)
His son and heir Ralph of Hesdin died in 1247
leaving Joan his daughter and heir. (fn. 16)
Joan of Hesdin, who was still alive in 1259, was
later succeeded by her father's sister Alice, wife
of William Huntercombe (d. 1271). (fn. 17) Alice's son
Thomas Huntercombe, also known as Thomas
Hesdin, succeeded to Wanstead, which he was holding in 1303 for ½ knight's fee. (fn. 18) He died in 1327
leaving the manor to his son John Huntercombe. (fn. 19)
In 1345 the manor was settled jointly on John
Huntercombe (d. 1349) and his wife Christine
(d. 1361). (fn. 20) On Christine's death Wanstead passed to
their son (Sir) John Huntercombe, who died in 1368,
holding the manor jointly with his wife Margaret,
of the Bishop of London, Waltham Abbey, and the
priories of Clerkenwell and Holy Trinity, Aldgate. (fn. 21)
Holy Trinity, lord of Cann Hall, had in 1275 acquired
from Reynold, son of Sir Ralph de Ginges, the
annual quit-rent due to him from Wanstead manor. (fn. 22)
Margaret Huntercombe held the manor until her
death in 1377. (fn. 23) Her son and heir John Huntercombe was then aged 15, but while the wardship
of two-thirds of his land was granted to William
Hanley and John James, Huntercombe himself was
granted a share, with John James, in the remaining
third. (fn. 24) In 1381, though still under age, John
Huntercombe was granted freedom of the other two-thirds as he was about to go overseas. (fn. 25) At his death
in 1383 he and his wife Margaret jointly held the
manor of the bishop of London, and two other
tenements, Naget Hall and Sayes. (fn. 26) Naget (later
Naked) Hall, which they held of Barking Abbey,
appears to have descended with Wanstead until the
early 16th century, when it became the manor of
Aldersbrook in Little Ilford. (fn. 27) Sayes, held of Waltham Abbey, was in the north of Wanstead parish,
extending into Woodford. It passed with the manor
of Wanstead down to the 19th century, when it
comprised two fields called Great and Little Seas,
totalling some 50 a. (fn. 28)
Margaret Huntercombe's life interest in the manor
was confirmed in 1383. (fn. 29) Her son John Huntercombe died without issue in 1391. (fn. 30) Henry Popham
was holding the manor in 1412, presumably as a
lessee. (fn. 31) Margaret Huntercombe was still alive in
1427, when the reversion of the manor was bought
by Robert Tatersal, draper and alderman of London,
and his wife Amy from William Rous, who traced
his title from Sir John Huntercombe (d. 1368). (fn. 32)
The conveyance was, however, defective in law,
since the manor was entailed on Rous and his heirs
and not on him alone. (fn. 33) Robert Tatersal knew this,
and on his death-bed, overcome with remorse,
directed that after the deaths of Margaret Huntercombe and William Rous the manor should be
conveyed to Rous's heirs. (fn. 34) Tatersal, and presumably Margaret Huntercombe also, were dead by
October 1429, when Tatersal's widow Amy presented to the rectory of Wanstead. (fn. 35) In 1436 John,
son of Robert Tatersal, swore an oath to carry out
his father's instructions or to satisfy William Rous's
heirs, as his faith and conscience required. (fn. 36) The
exact requirements of his conscience are not revealed, but in 1437 he made some kind of settlement which secured the manor to himself in fee. (fn. 37)
John Tatersal died in 1447, leaving John, aged 6,
his son and heir. (fn. 38) His widow Agnes later married
William Kene, who presented to the rectory as
late as 1457. (fn. 39) John Tatersal the son appears to have
died without issue, and to have been succeeded by
his sister Amy (or Anne), who with her husband
(Sir) Ralph Hastings presented to the rectory in
1471. (fn. 40) Ralph (d. 1495) directed in his will that
Amy might dispose of the manor as she wished. (fn. 41)
She appears to have sold it to Henry VII in 1499.
In that year the King paid £360 for Sir Ralph
Hastings's land at Wanstead, and presented to the
rectory. (fn. 42)
Both Henry VII and Henry VIII took a personal
interest in the manor and sometimes hunted there. (fn. 43)
Wanstead park was inclosed, (fn. 44) and from the beginning of his reign Henry VIII placed manor and
park under a succession of keepers chosen from his
close associates. (fn. 45) His last keeper was Sir Richard
(later Lord) Rich, appointed in 1543. (fn. 46) In 1549
Edward VI granted Rich the lordship of the manor,
the park, and the advowson of Wanstead. (fn. 47) In
1567 Rich leased most of the estate to James Lord,
of Danbury, a baron of the Exchequer. (fn. 48) The lease
later passed to Joan Lord, widow of James,
who conveyed it to Thomas Lord and Lawrence
Bingham. (fn. 49) Richard, Lord Rich, died in 1567,
leaving Wanstead to his son Robert, Lord Rich,
on condition that it was retained by his executors
for seven years to the uses of his will. (fn. 50) In 1578 the
freehold of the manor and the residue of the lease
were bought by Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester. (fn. 51)
At the same time Leicester bought the neighbouring
manor of Stonehall in Ilford, which subsequently
descended with Wanstead. (fn. 52)
Leicester mortgaged Wanstead and Stonehall in
1580 to Thomas Skinner for £4,000. (fn. 53) Skinner later
threatened foreclosure, but Leicester appears to
have redeemed the mortgage and held the manors
to his death in 1588. (fn. 54) He often visited Wanstead
and he bought land to enlarge the park. (fn. 55) The
manor was confirmed in 1588 to his widow
Lettice. (fn. 56) In 1590 she and her third husband, Sir
Christopher Blount, were granted licence to convey the estate to Sir George Cary and Philip Butler,
probably for the purpose of mortgaging it to repay
some of Leicester's debts. (fn. 57) They failed, however,
to repay his debt to the queen, and she seized the
manor of Wanstead, retaining it until 1593, when
she released it to Robert Devereux, earl of Essex,
in exchange for other manors. (fn. 58) Essex was the son
of the countess of Leicester by her first husband,
and in 1590 she and Blount had entailed Wanstead
and Stonehall upon him. (fn. 59) After his disgrace at court
Essex spent much of his time at Wanstead. (fn. 60) In
1598, however, he sold the two manors to Charles
Blount, Lord Mountjoy, elder brother of Sir
Christopher Blount, for £4,300. (fn. 61) Lord Mountjoy,
who was created earl of Devonshire in 1603, died
in 1606, having settled the manors on Mountjoy
Blount (later Lord Mountjoy and earl of Newport)
his bastard son by Penelope, Lady Rich (d. 1607),
whom Devonshire had married after her divorce
in 1605. (fn. 62)
Mountjoy Blount sold Wanstead and Stonehall
in 1617 to George Villiers, earl (later duke) of
Buckingham, in order to secure a peerage. (fn. 63) In
1618–19 Buckingham's estate at Wanstead was
valued at £362 a year. (fn. 64) He sold both manors in
1619 to Sir Henry Mildmay, for £7,300. (fn. 65) Mildmay,
who later became master of the king's jewel-house
but joined the Parliamentary side in the Civil War,
suffered forfeiture at the Restoration. (fn. 66) In 1661 the
king granted Wanstead and Stonehall to the duke of
York, who sold them to Sir Robert Brooke. (fn. 67) Since
Brooke was Mildmay's son-in-law, (fn. 68) this may have
been an arrangement to mitigate the effects of the
forfeiture, and Pepys states that Mildmay was at
Wanstead House when he died. (fn. 69) Brooke (d. 1669)
left the manors in trust to pay his debts. (fn. 70) In 1673–4
they were sold by the trustees and Brooke's heirs
(his sister Mary Brooke and his nephew Nathaniel
Bacon), to (Sir) Josiah Child (Bt.) for £11,500. (fn. 71)
William Mildmay, son of Sir Henry, was a party to
the sale, and seems to have had an interest in the
manors up to that time.
Child (d. 1699) amassed a large fortune as an
East India merchant. (fn. 72) He was succeeded by his son
Sir Josiah Child, Bt. (d. 1704), who in 1699 leased
Wanstead and Stonehall for 90 years to his half-brother Richard Child. (fn. 73) On Sir Josiah's death
without issue Richard Child succeeded to his title
and estates. (fn. 74) He built the great Wanstead House and
was created Viscount Castlemaine (1718) and Earl
Tylney (1733). In 1734 he took the surname of
Tylney in consequence of his wife inheriting the
large estates of that family. He was succeeded on
his death in 1750 by his son John Tylney, Earl
Tylney (d. 1784), who in 1734 had acquired a long
lease of part of West Ham manor. (fn. 75) Having no
descendants Tylney devised his estates to his sister's
son, Sir James Long, Bt., of Draycot Cerne (Wilts.),
who was already a rich landowner. (fn. 76) From Sir
James (d. 1794) the Wanstead estate passed in
succession to his infant son Sir James Long, Bt.,
who died without issue in 1805, and his eldest
daughter Catherine Tylney Long. Catherine (d.
1825) married in 1812 William Wellesley-Pole
(d. 1857), later earl of Mornington, nephew of the
duke of Wellington, who took the surname of
Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley. (fn. 77) A financial crisis led
to the demolition in 1823–4 of Wanstead House, (fn. 78)
but the estate was not then broken up. In the 1840s
William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley still owned
some 1,400 a. in the parishes of Wanstead (436 a.),
Woodford, Leyton, Little Ilford, and Barking. (fn. 79)
He was still holding manor courts at Wanstead in
1856. (fn. 80) The manor passed to his son William, earl
of Mornington (d. 1863), who left it in trust to his
father's cousin Henry Wellesley, Earl Cowley
(d. 1884). (fn. 81) In 1880 Cowley sold part of Wanstead
Park (184 a.) to the corporation of London for
preservation as part of Epping Forest. (fn. 82) His family
sold the rest of the park in 1920 to Wanstead
Sports Ground Ltd., but still held some land in
Wanstead in the 1930s. (fn. 83)
Wanstead House, originally called Wanstead Hall,
lay about 300 yd. south-east of St. Mary's church. (fn. 84)
Up to the 14th century it was probably small but
by 1499 it was of sufficient size to serve as a royal
hunting-lodge, and it seems to have been rebuilt
or considerably enlarged in the later 16th century.
Between 1715 and 1722 it was completely rebuilt as
a Palladian mansion. It was demolished in 1823–4.
The manor-house was valued at only 1s. a year
in 1271 and 6s. in 1350. (fn. 85) Henry VII visited Wanstead occasionally, as did Henry VIII during the
early years of his reign. (fn. 86) Repairs were carried out
in 1510–11 and 1542 but in 1549 the house was 'in
great ruin'. (fn. 87) Richard, Lord Rich, owner 1549–67,
is said to have rebuilt it. (fn. 88) Princess (later Queen)
Mary stayed there in 1550–51 and 1553, and Elizabeth I in 1561 and on several later occasions. (fn. 89)
Leicester is supposed to have improved and enlarged the building. (fn. 90) His probate inventory (1588) (fn. 91)
mentions the great gallery, which contained, inter
alia, a billiard table, an organ virginal, portraits of
Henry VIII, Mary, and Elizabeth, and a few books.
There were also a chapel, little gallery, great
chamber, and some 20 bedrooms, one of which
was kept ready for the queen. The furnishing included several tapestries. Among out-buildings were
a stillhouse, brewhouse, dairy, forge, and stables.
Leicester had kept 58 horses.
James I often visited Wanstead House and
Charles I did so both as prince of Wales and as king. (fn. 92)
When bought by (Sir) Josiah Child in 1673–4 the
house, with 40 hearths, was one of the largest in
Essex. (fn. 93) At that period it was a quadrangular two-storey building with many gables. (fn. 94) The symmetrical
west (entrance) front of nine bays was approached
across a forecourt flanked on each side by a three-storey gatehouse. The irregular east front was probably the oldest part of the building. Pepys thought
the house 'a fine seat, but old-fashioned'. (fn. 95) Child made
no important alterations to the building, but spent
much money on laying out the grounds. (fn. 96) Evelyn
in 1683 commented especially on the new fishponds
and walnut plantations. (fn. 97) According to Defoe Sir
Josiah added 'innumerable rows of trees …
avenues and vistos, to the house, all leading up to
the place where the old house stood, as to a centre'. (fn. 98)
Further work on the park was carried out by Sir
Richard Child soon after he succeeded to the estate.
According to one statement this was started in 1706
and was one of the last designs of George London. (fn. 99)
Drawings of c. 1715 show, running eastwards from
the house, a short canal with a bowling green at the
far end, flanking which was a formal parterre. (fn. 100)
Farther east was the Roding, regimented into
canals. North-east of the house was an orangery and
west of it a lake across which ran the main drive
leading to Leytonstone, flanked by avenues of trees
in quincunx formation. Towards the end of his life,
after rebuilding the house, the first Earl Tylney
appears to have carried out further alterations to the
park on slightly less formal lines. (fn. 101) The short canal
and parterre were replaced by a terrace and a lawn.
Farther east the diversion of the river into canals
was elaborated, while to the south new serpentine
ponds were made. The lake west of the house was
enlarged to form an octagon called the Basin and
the drive deflected round both sides of it. (fn. 102) By 1746
the park covered most of the parish between
Wanstead Flats and South (Redbridge) Lane, with
radiating avenues extending as far as Leytonstone
and Snaresbrook. (fn. 103)
Wanstead House was completely rebuilt by Sir
Richard Child to the design of Colen Campbell
between 1715 and 1722. It was 'the archetype of the
Palladian great house'. (fn. 104) The exterior, rectangular
and cased in Portland stone, was some 260 ft.
long and 75 ft. deep. On the west (entrance) front
the principal storey of 21 bays was set above a
rusticated ground floor and had as its central
feature a grand Corinthian prostyle portico, from
which a perron staircase descended on each side
to the forecourt. Above the principal floor, centrally placed, was another storey of nine bays, containing two mezzanine floors. There was also a
basement floor. (fn. 105) The east (garden) front was similar to the west front except that the central feature,
not salient, comprised only a pediment and Corinthian pilasters; the perron staircase leading down
from a balcony on the principal floor appears to
have been removed between 1781 and 1823. No
view of the completed house shows the great central
cupola which dominates the roof in Campbell's
drawings, and that feature was probably never
built. In the 1720s and 1730s there were plans to
extend the house to the west by adding quadrant
colonnades and wings, (fn. 106) enclosing a spacious forecourt. They were apparently not carried out, but
instead of the wings low walls were built, decorated
with urns and obelisks. (fn. 107)
The grand entrance hall was 51 ft. long, 36 ft.
wide, and 36 ft. high. (fn. 108) Behind it, looking across the
gardens, was the saloon, forming a 30-ft. cube.
At the south end of the house, running the whole
depth, was the ballroom. That was the room depicted in William Hogarth's 'Assembly at Wanstead
House' (1729), which shows an interior in the style
of Inigo Jones, with a tall marble chimney piece
surmounted by consoles and a scroll pediment. The
woodwork was painted green, with gilded ornaments
and mouldings. An inventory of the contents in
1822, together with earlier descriptions, provide
details of the rich furnishing and ornaments brought
together by successive owners of the house. (fn. 109) The
hall contained two statues from the ruins of
Herculanaeum, and paintings by Andrea Casali. Its
ceiling was painted by William Kent, with figures
representing Morning, Noon, and Night. The ballroom was hung with tapestries said to have come
from the old house and to have dated from Leicester's
time. Among many other treasures were paintings
by Holbein, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Van Dyck.
Wanstead House ranked with the greatest mansions of the time and was much admired. (fn. 110) Even
Horace Walpole, who was inclined to ridicule the
taste of its parvenu owners, admitted the grandeur
of the scene. (fn. 111) Many distinguished guests went
there, to enjoy a hospitality reputed to be unprecedented since the days of Wolsey. (fn. 112) Few changes
seem to have been made to the house or the park
in the later 18th century. Many of the art treasures
already mentioned were bought by the second Earl
Tylney during his residence in Italy. (fn. 113) He built
the grotto (c. 1762) and probably also the temple,
both on the eastern side of the park. (fn. 114) The orangery
was demolished in 1799. (fn. 115) By the early 19th century
the landscaping of the park had been softened,
especially on the east side, by the natural growth of
trees. (fn. 116) During the minorities following Sir James
Long's death in 1794 the house was sometimes let.
Louis Joseph, Prince de Condé, was living there
in 1807. (fn. 117) William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley,
who became master of Wanstead House on his
marriage to Catherine Long in 1812, lived there and
for a few years entertained in grand style. In 1814
it was said that he was setting up Wanstead House
to surpass Carlton House and that the interior was
being transformed into a 'uniform blaze of burnished gold'. (fn. 118) At the same time he was altering the
park in preparation for a fête to celebrate his son's
baptism and the return from the war of his uncle
the duke of Wellington. (fn. 119) By 1820, however, Long-Wellesley was in desperate financial straits resulting
mainly though not entirely from his extravagance
and bad management. (fn. 120) Under the marriage settlement he and Catherine had only limited power
to mortgage the estate and could not sell any land.
Their most valuable disposable assets were the
fabric and contents of Wanstead House. The contents were sold in 1822. (fn. 121) The building was sold
for demolition in 1823 to Stannard and Athow of
Norwich. (fn. 122) As a result of these sales the possessions
of the Tylney Longs were widely scattered. (fn. 123)
The site of Wanstead House is marked by a depression on the first hole of Wanstead golf course.
North of it part of the 18th-century stable court, of
brick and weather-boarded timber, survives as the
golf club house. The stone piers of the main entrance
gates, bearing Sir Richard Child's monogram, still
stand in Overton Drive, and the temple, now keepers'
cottages, in the centre of Wanstead Park. East of
the temple are the ruins of the grotto, which was
gutted by fire in 1884. (fn. 124) Some of the ornamental
waters survive, including the Basin, and Perch,
Heronry, and Shoulder of Mutton ponds. Two
other ponds, at the south end of Blake Hall Road,
have disappeared. (fn. 125) The westernmost contained an
island on which was Lake House, an early-18th-century building said to have been a banqueting
hall or summer-house. It was later a residence.
Thomas Hood (1799–1845), the poet, lived there
1832–5. (fn. 126) It was demolished in 1908. (fn. 127)
The manor of CANN HALL or CANONS
HALL comprised most of the Wanstead Slip, together with a few fields in West Ham. (fn. 128) The manor
originated in Hugh de Montfort's Domesday holding of 3 hides and 30 a. in Leyton. (fn. 129) Two hides of
that holding were given by Montfort's daughter
Adela and her first husband Simon de Moulins to
the canons of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, and the grant
was confirmed by the king about 1121. (fn. 130) Adela's
second husband, Robert de Vere, later confirmed
the gift, as did King Stephen. (fn. 131) A tithe composition
relating to Cann Hall was made in 1208 between
Holy Trinity and the rector of Wanstead. (fn. 132) It
suggests that the manor was by then in Wanstead,
though the priory's tenants were still being described
as 'of Leyton' as late as 1369. (fn. 133)
Holy Trinity retained Cann Hall until the priory's
dissolution in 1532. In 1533 several petitions were
made to the Crown for possession of the manor,
though the poverty of its buildings made it no great
prize. (fn. 134) It was granted in 1534 for life to Nicholas
Sympson, a groom of the Privy Chamber, who in
the following year was given licence to hold it
jointly with his wife Joan in survivorship. (fn. 135) Nicholas
died in 1552 or 1553 and Joan in 1562. (fn. 136) Cann Hall
then passed to Nicholas Strelley, whose father
John Strelley (d. 1559), vintner of London, had
obtained the reversion in 1554; in 1559 the manor
had been valued at £10 a year. (fn. 137)
Nicholas Strelley (d. 1611) left as heir his daughter
Cecily, wife of Humphrey Cardinall of Great
Humby (Lincs.), (fn. 138) but Cann Hall was claimed by
Robert Woolhouse, Cecily's cousin, under an entail
created in John Strelley's will. (fn. 139) The claimants
evidently compromised. Woolhouse took two-thirds
of Cann Hall, while the other third was retained by
Cecily and Humphrey Cardinall, who appear, in
fact, to have been holding it by 1603. (fn. 140)
The Cardinalls' third of the manor was bought in
1619 by Thomas Boothby, who transferred it soon
after to his son Richard. (fn. 141) The other two-thirds
descended from Robert Woolhouse (d. 1634) to his
son Thomas, (fn. 142) who appears to have sold it to Richard
Boothby in or soon after 1639. (fn. 143) Richard Boothby
was certainly holding the whole manor from 1652. (fn. 144)
He sold it in 1662 to James Flesher (d. 1671),
stationer of London. (fn. 145) Under Flesher's will Cann
Hall was sold in 1671 to William Colegrave for
£2,750. (fn. 146)
The manor remained in the Colegrave family
until the 19th century, being usually let to tenants.
William Colegrave the purchaser appears to have
been identical with the man of that name who died
in 1721. (fn. 147) In 1715 he was listed among Roman
Catholics refusing oaths of loyalty. (fn. 148) The estate was
then on lease to John Hewitt and Richard St.
Pierre. (fn. 149) At that period the perquisites of the manor
were worth about £65 a year, and the farm about
£105. (fn. 150) Cann Hall passed in succession to William
Colegrave's sons Henry (d. 1722) and William
(d. 1749). (fn. 151) William (d. 1793), son of the last-named
William Colegrave, was succeeded by his brother
Robert (d. 1801). (fn. 152) In 1799 the manor comprised
230 a. let to three tenants. (fn. 153)
Robert Colegrave was succeeded by his sister's
son John Manby (d. 1819). (fn. 154) William Manby
(d. 1868), nephew and heir of John Manby, took
the name of Colegrave. (fn. 155) In 1840 he sold 3 a. to the
Northern and Eastern Railway Co. for £1,000. (fn. 156)
In 1841 his estate comprised 205 a. in Wanstead
and 17 a. in West Ham. (fn. 157) Most of it was occupied
by Richard Plaxton, who was still there in 1855. (fn. 158)
In 1862 the tenant was John Robinson. (fn. 159) John
Manby Colegrave, who succeeded his father as lord
of the manor in 1868, died in 1879. (fn. 160) Most of the
estate was developed for building c. 1880–95, (fn. 161)
but the Colegraves retained part of it until 1900. (fn. 162)
Among local street names commemorating them and
their connexions are Colegrave, Downsell, Ellingham, and Worsley Roads. (fn. 163)
In 1533 the only buildings attached to the manor
were two old barns and a little cottage. (fn. 164) By 1746
Cann Hall included buildings on both sides of Cann
Hall Lane. (fn. 165) In 1841 the main farm buildings lay
north of the lane, and there was a cottage to the
south of it. (fn. 166) By the 1860s the cottage, enlarged, had
become a residence with ornamental gardens called
Cann Hall; the buildings north of the lane were
called Cann Hall farm. (fn. 167) None of the buildings has
survived.