4 Reculvers Cottages, St Clement (HT 8816)

The property was built on one of the 18 plots into which Five Gates Field (formerly part of the Haltons estate) was divided for building. Exercising a power of appointment reserved in a settlement of 13 Dec 1780, on 9 & 10 Oct 1800 Jeremiah Dodson of Eltham, Kent Esq conveyed the field to William Gill banker & John Cossum mercer his trustee for £266. The field, occupied by Ann Burfield widow, had formed lot one in a recent auction of the estate at which other parts had been purchased by William Hamilton esq including the Pitt Field, for the use of a spring in which an easement was reserved. Deeds of 7 May 1719 and 4 & 5 Apr 1776 were convenanted to be produced. Gill & Cossum sold the field with a cottage to Samuel Duke breechesmaker & William Thorpe gent his trustee for £420 on 20 & 21 Feb 1818. Duke laid the land out in building plots which had subsequently to be changed; on 17 Jan 1823 Mark Meadow carpenter, Charles Launcelot Powell schoolmaster, Elizabeth Maddick spinster, Thomas Foster tailor & Thomas Babington of Rotherfield gent who had already purchased lots were discharged by Duke from the first set of covenants for which others were substituted (AMS5828/25/3)

On 3 & 4 July 1835 plot 18 was sold to Philip Parks carpenter & Henry Bishop gent his trustee for £42; a detailed plan of the whole building scheme appears on the deed (AMS5828/25/1, 2)

By his will of 11 Feb 1837 Parks gave his wife Eliza a life estate with power to sell, remainder to his children at 21; he died 10 Apr 1838 & the will was proved at Lewes 20 Apr 1848. On 26 Apr 1848 Ann Garton Jackson & Sarah Maria Jackson formerly of Covent Garden Mx spinsters purchased the land (upon which a house had been built) for £200; the conveyance was executed by the widow, George Clark Jones carpenter (the executor) Philip P of Lambeth carpenter, Frances P of Edgeware Road Mx spinster, David P plasterer, Maria P of Regents Park Mx spinster, Sarah P spinster & Abraham P carver & gilder (children). Samuel Duke also joined the deed to convey another three plots to the Jacksons for £100; plans of both building schemes appear on the deed (AMS5828/25/4)

On 11 May 1857 Sarah Maria sold her share of Reculver Cottage to her sister, the occupier, for £313, which according to an attached note was half its original cost (AMS5828/25/5). Ann G Jackson died 4 Nov 1866 & by her will of 1 Nov 1848 the property descended to her sister to whom (together with 3 Reculver Cottages which Joseph Golding had conveyed to AGJ 1 Jan 1856) it was conveyed 22 Jan 1868 by William Jackson of Islington gent the brother & heir at law (AMS5828/25/7). Mark Meadow had purchased land from Duke & Thorpe in Feb 1823 & erected 3 Reculver Cottage on it & on 1 & 2 Oct 1839 it was sold by William Neale of Drury Lane Mx packer & presser to Edmund Richardson surgeon (AMS5828/25/6)

On 15 Mar 1890 the house was leased by Paul Jackson of St Johns Wood Mx surgeon to John Irving Pascoe of 12 Tillington Terrace esq who assigned to Charles Graham of Kentish Town doctor of science, 17 Sept 1891 who obtained a longer lease on 5 Feb 1892. Jackson died 4 Sept 1896, Graham on 13 Nov 1909 & on 24 Oct 1910 the lease was surrendered by the executors (AMS5828/25/8, 9) and a piece of land purchased by Graham on 3 Aug 1899 from George Furneaux of London gent & his mortgagees (plan) was conveyed (AMS5828/25/10 - 14)

On 4 Feb 1918 Paul Jackson's trustees conveyed the property (with the additional land) to Emily Haynes the occupier for £400; a statutory declaration by Elihu Marcus Funnell, assistant overseer & collector of Hastings CB identified the property, known since its lease to Mr Blomfield in 1914 as Dalzell (AMS5828/25/15 - 17)

On 6 Nov 1922 a strip of land was sold to Hastings CB for road widening & on 29 June 1925 the house was sold to James Henry Tingle of Hove gent for £975 who sold on 9 May 1927 to John Colville of London retired planter for £1450 (AMS5828/25/18 - 24). On 11 June 1937 Colville sold to William Ernest Jameson of St Leonards bachelor of medicine, Ethel Grace Blackburn spinster & George Holt Ormerod esq for £1175 (AMS5828/25/25)