24-28 North Street

Also includes deeds and abstracts relating to houses in Spring Gardens. In 1725 a piece of land (2 acres) abutting south and east a way leading from the highway at St Johns Church to Greenwall, north the Lords waste and west a footway leading from the glebe of St Johns, was sold by Edward Tray on who had inherited from his father Nathaniel in 1715, to Richard Puxty, tanner. On his death in 1745 it passed to Nicholas Puxty, his grandson, who died in 1761. His heir, Marion Scott of Chigwell, Essex, sold to William Cooper in 1791 and in 1793 Cooper sold to John Chatfield, tanner. His heir Thomas then sold the property (now containing a house formerly a summer house) to John Chatfield Madgwick, grocer. He then sold the north part of the land to Avery Roberts in 1821, other parts now with houses, abutting what was later called Spring Gardens, to John Huggett and Thomas Chatfield in 1828, and in 1833 .another part abutting North Street on the east. and Spring Gardens on the south together with 9 houses lately erected, 5 fronting onto North Street and 4 onto Spring Gardens, to John (later Turner) Winch, bricklayer. Winch then mortgaged the properties to William Alfree of Iford in 1844. After his death in 1846 and that of his wife in 1848, Winch's heirs (his nephew William) and William Bridger together with William Alfree sold the property to Mrs Elizabeth Baker of Piddinghoe in 1854. Her daughter Sarah Ann married Alfred Hammond, gent in 1878. Under his will of 1898 the five North Street houses were sold to William John Beck.