Ebenezer House, 21 Woods Passage, All Saints

From a list of deeds convenanted to be produced, the property was conveyed by John Collier esq to Richard Cosens bricklayer, 10 & 11 Nov 1751. On 31 Dec 1768 Cosens & Sarah his wife mortgaged to John Elfick of Ninfield farmer and on 19 & 20 Dec 1776 sold to Thomas Kennard bricklayer & Thomas Dutton surgeon his trustee. Kennard sold to John Furner labourer & Edward Furner thatcher his trustee on 18 & 19 June 1812 & on 23 June the Furners mortgaged the property to Kennard for £200

On 3 & 4 Jan 1816 a garden with a house recently erected at the expense of David Fenner, dissenting minister, near his newly-built chapel, part of the above estate, was conveyed by the Furners to Fenner and William Bishop gent his trustee; the deed contains detailed covenants regarding rights of way & party walls. On 24 Jan the property was mortgaged to Humphrey Wickham butcher (1 - 3). On 24 June 1816 Fenner purchased a garden to the S of the house from John Weston watchmaker who had purchased it from Zebulon Harman mariner (to whom, with a house, it was bequeathed by his grandfather Zebulon Fautley senior mariner 30 July 1763 subject to the estate of ZF's daughter Mary Harman widow who died in 1771) 10 June 1816 (4 - 8). On 23 Oct 1816 the premises were further charged to Wickham but on 24 Dec 1818 the combined property was sold to Sarah Challen spinster for £700, £350 of which discharged the mortgage (9 - 11). On 28 Jan 1819 Miss Challen mortgaged to William Thorpe gent & Walter Duke of Bexhill gent; in 1831 she married Thomas Rutherford Constable & went to live in France. The mortgagees, unable to collect their debt, assigned the premises to David Fenner for £100 on 28 May 1841 subject to the Constables' equity of redemption; on 24 June Fenner mortgaged to Thomas Allen baker for £140 (12 - 14)

Fenner assigned his interest in trust for John Phillips, who died 31 Mar 1870 & whose executors enlarged their interest to fee simple (under the terms of the 1880 & 1881 Conveyancing Acts) on 17 Mar 1894 & on 19 Mar conveyed to William James Larcombe accountant for £375; the property, now called Ebenezer House, was occupied by George Martin (15 - 18)

On 7 Jan 1901 Larcombe & his mortgagee conveyed to James Edgar Sutton of 20 Tackleway fishmonger for £450 and by 29 Sept 1903 Ebenezer House was owned by Frank Shoesmith of Harold Road, furniture dealer who on 4 Mar 1920 conveyed to Richard Joseph Ball of Titchbon Cottage, Tackleway, fisherman (19 - 22)

On 31 May 1928 Braham Hopkins of All Saints Street decorator conveyed to Ebenezer Baldwin of Tunbridge Wells farmer for £460 and in 1956 the property was owned and occupied by Miss Jean Heron Walker (23, 24)