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1882 

TO BE LET: Cottage, Sheds, Market Garden & large nut ground in Puddingmoor. Apply JB Brooks,
Newmarket.
COUNCIL:  (4) Suggested extension of town sewer to Puddingmoor.  

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New house Puddingmoor for CF Parker
Lime Kiln in Puddingmoor
Tenders invited for rebuilding Churchyard Wall
Mr Eldred refused as Cow Keeper. Impure water. Passed later
Water from well 30ft from cesspit used by 16 houses. Action required.
Alterations to House on Puddingmoor belonging to Henry Woolnough
Well in Puddingmoor will no longer supply drinking water
Alterations to House in Puddingmoor for Major Barrett
1 New House forGeorge Mouell in Puddingmoor
Letter from Mr Mouell complaining of surface water in Puddingmoor
Stable for Mr Mouel in Pudingmoor referred back
Cowshed in Puddingmoor for Cornelius Elliott referred back
Cowshed in Puddingmoor for Cornelius Elliott, occupied Mrs Carey
Pickerel, Puddingmoor: urinal referred back
Boat sheds for Mr Hipperson in Puddingmoor
House refuse to be deposited onm Marsh 230, Little Common
Addition to the Pickerel Inn, Puddingmor for Colchester Brewery
Church Wall near Puddingmoor to be repaired by Surveyor
House in Puddingmoor for the Beccles Waterworks
Mr Woolner, 52 Puddingmoor complains of smell, Little Common

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1917 
 
 
 

LIGHTING OFFENCES: Ethel Owles, widow, of Leman House. Very bright light showing at the  
back of the house. Constable went down to Puddingmoor and saw two badly screened downstairs  
windows. The curtains did not fit properly. Could be seen a considerable distance away across the  
marshes. Fined £2 10s

DANGEROUS BULLOCK bullock owned by WWT Youngman, being taken for slaughter,
escaped. It ran through the streets and churchyard down the steps, made a double circuit of  
Puddingmoor. Before it was captured it had knocked down 2 soldiers & others. Mr Tilney’s  
marksmanship used after it had been cornered in a former slaughter house in Ballygate. He shot it.

1876 
 
 
 
 

COUNCIL: JL Kent storing petrol in various places; in the shop, in  a warehouse behind the shop, in
licensed store in Ballygate, under the wall near the street by his house in Ballygate, in a loke in  
Puddingmoor. Kent only allowed to store 3 gallons behind his shop.
Mr Masters applied to store petrol in his shop, in his bar warehouse near the Baptist Chapel  & some
on Rigborne Hill

 
for some surnames in the late 12th and early 13th centuries was the area of the town or village in which they lived. In Beccles only
Puddingmoor appears as a name derived from an area of the town, with the possible exception of Wilmo Bregge, who might have
lived in Bridge Street. There are seven names mentioning Puddingmoor:
 
Podymor, Alexandro de Podymor. They all paid six pence to the subsidy, the smallest sum in Beccles, but paid by 44% of the 205
listed in the town. (The largest sum paid in Beccles was 6 shillings and 5 pence) This suggests that Puddingmoor was a well
established area of the town in the early 14th century, but at least some of the property was not valuable.
 
Five people who lived in Puddingmoor, Adam Barkere, John Kyngesman, John Recher, John Lockere and Richard Sekedele were
threatened with a fine of twelve pence if they did not remove their dungheaps before the next court. Similarly John Caketone was
accused of obstructing the communal water course and John Red and Richard Wodebregge failed to repair the water course in or
outside their property. The final person who was in trouble in Puddingmoor was "the Rector of the Church of Beccles", J Atte Gate,
"who did not remove timber from the common river bank to the detriment of his neighbours." No doubt this problem occured at the
Parsonage which was situated opposite the bottom of the church steps.
 
Richard Coleler.
 
Puddingmoor to Thomas Falke. Richard Cutler's will survives. He asks to be buried in the churchyard of St. Michael's and leaves
money for a variety of causes: to St Michael's for tithes not paid, and for the fabric, the repair of St Peter's Church and the "Great
Bridge of Beccles and the Chapel of Blessed Mary there". This was probably the sort of small chapel by the wayside still to be seen
frequently in Roman Catholic countries of Europe, which were mostly destroyed in the 16th and 17th centuries in England.
 
faithful departed." This is the same Richard Wodebregg who was threatened with a fine years earlier for failing to repair the water
course. No doubt he was a neighbour in Puddingmoor.
 
part of which he left to his younger son "to enjoy the corner of the said tenement next to Thomas Falkys as far as my shop."
Perhaps the property was just round the corner from Old Market behind what is now Saltgate Antiques.

ROGUES BIOGRAPHY
from notes given to SW Rix, and made by Mr Harding, Inspector of Police, Beccles c1859

HOWELL, James. A convicted thief. Will steal anything that comes his way. Was committed & sentenced to 6 months in 1857.
Lives in Puddingmoor  [17 Puddingmoor?]

PITCHERS Commoonly called "Rats Pitchers", a thief and low character, lives in Puddingmoor - enlisted in the army in August
1858, nephew of William Pitchers, normally called Low Pitchers from the quantity he can drink. A great drunkard, poacher and
suspicious character. He moved to Yarmouth in 1854. [31 Puddingmoor]

PITCHERS Usually called Tailor Pitchers, nephew of the above and brother to "Rats" a notorious young thief (age about 19) and
burglar. Suspected to have been concerned in Mrs Sharpin's robbery. Keeps a girl named Beans, a thief & prostitute. Lives in
Puddingmoor. [6 Stepping Hill]

£2-10-0
 
£2-10-0
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£1-13-4
£8-3-2
 

for mending the way leading from old Market towards Puddingmoor street so torn up with carts that they could not pass
without great danger as followeth
to Thomas Wenn for 12 & 1/2 tons of stone at 4s the ton
to Thomas Ward for 20 tons of stone
to Mr Michleborough for a load of stones
to Robert Kent for 10 tons of stone
to Thomas Smyth for a parcel of stones
to John Farrow for setting the stones at 3d the yard  
2 skips 8d; taking stone out of the water 6d; & taking up a piece of timber 1s 2d in all
for the expenses for the carts & other workmen
to Ewen standing at the Mill Green on Fair Day to divers carts not to come that road being repairing
widow Burton for giving like notice
to Ewen for his labour in crying of refuse stones
to Pitchers for bringing 42 tons of stone from the Staithe
to Pitchers carrying 3 other parcels of stone, & for carrying 135 loads of gravel,and for 7 loads of wash sand to be
employed in the work

from: “Beccles Researches” p2ff
PUDDINGMOOR IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY:
Puddingmoor has been an interesting road to survey as it was so full of contrasts. From the census returns for 1851 and 1881 we
find great variation in income, size of family and employment, all in one street. In 1851 Henry Farr, an unmarried landed proprietor
whose father had been a successful brewer, lived comfortably with four servants to look after him. Just down the road in a room in
the Almshouse was Lydia Laws, a pauper widow receiving coal, blankets and money from the Feoffees. The largest family totalled
11 people, but the average in 1851 was 5. Thirty years later the largest household was 9 and the average just under 4. By then there
was a greater percentage of smaller families of just 2 or 3 persons. School attendance appears to have started at 3 years of age and
continued till 10 or so, with many youngsters at work by the age of 12.

In the records of the Medical Board and the Nuisance Committee of 1848/149 there are several references to a cholera epidemic in
the summer of 1849, during which several children of the family of William Laws died. So it is interesting to find a large Laws family
living in Puddingmoor in 1851 with a total of 7 children, aged from 23 down to 10 years followed by a gap and then a two-month old
baby. The fatalities in the cholera outbreak were almost certainly from this family. In the Committee book is recorded a payment of
25s ‘in lieu of a feather bed, two pillows, a bolster and cotton gown which were destroyed by order of the Committee’ to William
Laws, whose children had died of cholera.

In assessing the age range of Puddingmoor inhabitants some unexpected imbalances have been brought to light. In 1881 there was
a great number of young adults in their twenties, for which we can so far find no reason (see 1881 table). However, this would help
to  explain  the  smaller  family  size  in that year as many were probably fairly newly married with perhaps only one child. Most
inhabitants had been born locally, but three had come from the Cape of Good Hope, a couple of wives came from Devonport and
one young lady from the Channel Isles. The high proportion of seafarers living in the street would help to account for this.

Occupations  in  1851  included  general  and  agricultural  labourers,  watermen  and  associated  marine  trades,  servants,  and  an
assortment  of  crafts  and  trades  including  shoemakers,  a  blacksmith,  a  lime  burner  (there  was  a lime kiln [there were two] in
Puddingmoor) and a twine spinner. There was a similar mix of trades in 1881, but by then printing had arrived in Beccles and 13
Puddingmoor inhabitants were involved in the printing trade. One man worked on the railway and several were in the coaching and
carting businesses. Two local residents owned their own boats. A family of travelling musicians (parents with a child of 10) was
lodging in Puddingmoor on census night; perhaps they were performing in one of the frequent concerts held in the town. Although
most of those living in the street were not rich, two thirds of the mid-nineteenth century Puddingmoor householders qualified as
burgesses who could vote in borough council elections.
Sources:  Census returns for 1851 and 1881, trade directories, lists of burgesses in Rix Collection Division VI. vol. 3, lists of
Feoffees’s coal distribution, Nuisance Book for 1848/49.

Listed Buildings of Suffolk:
Said  to be 16th century, with 17th and 18th century additions and alterations. 2 storeys and attic. 3 pedimented dormers. Cut
flintwork, with stone Quoins, jambs to windows, cills and lintels with keys. Stone finials to kneelers, and stone offset to plinth.
Square brick chimneys with capping. Pantiles. 5 windows, sash with glazing bars and flush frames. Wide plastered band, at eaves,
with bedmould. Entrance with 18th century porch with bracket open pediment on Doric Columns. Fanlight with modern glazing.
North-east portion, 2 storey, red brick with Doric pilasters. Frieze over pilasters only. Modillion cornice. Sashes in flush frames, flat
arches. Altered interior but with 2 panelled room, Adam type mantel in north-east portion. Wing on riverside, 2 and 3 storey brick,
limewashed.
Pevsner: Buildings of England: Suffolk:
A late Georgian or later facade, knapped flint with stone trim, and an earlier back of red brick with giant pilasters.
MY NOTE: The mid 18th century engraving of Beccles from the Gillingham marshes, unsigned and undated, shows the building
without the brick extension facing the River. The bar extension was added in 1973.

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by  
 
1863 
 
 
 

William Rede, Esq [The first Lord of the Manor of Beccles after the Dissolution of the Monasteries]
William Leman [ brother of Sir John Leman, Lord Mayor of London], for his house he dwelleth in,
sometime Mr William Rede called Deny’s Staithe 
William Leman [I], for his house that he dwelleth in formerly William Rede, Esq.
called Deny’s Staithe 
John Leman [III], entered his Task after his Father’s death (folio 47) 
William Leman [III], for 4 tenements and one piece of land, sometime John Leman,
before Dr Rede (folio 146)
John Morse
John Stockwood, [1680-1722]  for a tenement in Puddingmoor, late Leman, late John Morse 
 
Margaret Stockwood, [1689-1758] for a tenement in Puddingmoor, formerly Leman, since John  
Stockwood 
Robert Le Grys, [1703-1767], for a tenement late Mr Stockwood, before Leman 

Task 8d
Task 8d

Task 8d
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 Sale of Robert Le Grys: [He married 2 Elizabeth Mash 1709-89, who married 3 William Crowfoot]
 
 
business being situated by the side of a Navigable River and the Pumping done by Horses, with a very  
convenient House adjoining fit for a Gentleman's family.
 
 
 
 
 

 
week together with convenient Store Houses, Granaries, Mill House & co extremely convenient for  

Lot 3: Also a new built Messuage adjoining to the first mentioned premises in the occupation of Mrs
Purvis [she was the Aunt of Elizabeth Le Grys (nee Artis) and it seems a wing of the house or an
adjoining house was built for her] at yearly rent of £8.
Robert Le Grys died in August 1767; His widow married William Crowfoot - (her next door neighbour,
living in St Peter’s House) in February 1768]
William Crowfoot, [III, 1725-1783], in Puddingmoor, formerly Leman, after Mrs Stockwood
and late Le Grys [ William Crowfoot III  married Elizabeth Le Grys in 1758] 
Beccles: to be sold or let House with large garden, choice fruit trees, Brewing Office, Malting Office
adjoining the River. William Crowfoot, proprietor & occupier of the premises.
Thomas Farr, [brewer;  1762-1850] tenement in Puddingmoor, late of Robert Le Grys, Esq, decsd,
before Stockwood 
Important unreserved sale of costly modern furniture & household goods in & about the mansion of
Henry Shurlock Farr, Esq. [1809-63]. [He purchased the Manor of Beccles 11 Oct 1851 for £1640. He
sold the Manor rights to many properties to their owners, including land owned by the Manor bought
the Railway when it came to Beccles. The Manor was sold after his death for £800 to James Read the
Younger.
SALE: Valuable Freehold Mansion House, Lodge, Pleasure Grounds, Gardens and Premises called
Waveney House by desire of the Trustees of the late H.S. Farr, Esq., Deceased, for SALE by Mr James
Crisp at the King’s Head Inn, Beccles, on Monday the 27th of July, 1863 at three for four o’clock in the
afternoon.

 
 
 
having
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
productive.
 

LOT 1: ALL THAT Capital Freehold Brick and Stone Built and Tiled Family Mansion with the white
brick built and slated Gothic Lodge, Out offices, Gardens, Pleasure Grounds, large Vinery, Greenhouse,
Forcing  House,  Pits  and  appurtenances  thereto  belonging,  situate  in  Puddingmoor,  in Beccles and
a Staithe and Frontage to the River Waveney.
The Mansion House comprises a spacious entrance Hall, large dining and drawing rooms, breakfast
room, study, housekeeper's room, kitchen, larders and other commodious domestic offices, five principal
bedrooms and dressing rooms, water closet, excellent bath room, fitted with mahogany and marble bath,
and hot and cold water apparatus
The out-offices comprising a three stall stable, two loose boxes, harness house, double coach houses,
wine vaults, large granary and other convenient Out-buildings.
The garden contains a large Vinery, Greenhouse, Forcing House and pits heated with flues and hot
 

1863 
 
 
 

INDENTURE: between Henry A Oakes of Buxhall Lodge & Henry Read, land agent, of the
first part and Frederick Oakes the other part
Reciting  indenture 1854:  HS Farr, (1st Part); Geo Orgill Leman, (2nd Part); George
Peskett (3rd Part); EC Sharpin (4th Part); Charles Bobbett (5th Part); WR Sharpin (6th Part)
Indenture 1857:  HS Farr (1st Part); Mary Reynold (2nd Part)
HS Farr died 1863: Will:
All his Capital Messuage & premises, late in the occupation of Rev Mr Goodwin &
 Messuage called The Lodge to Edward Swatman & Henry Read on Trust, to sell. Codicil
appointed HA Oakes in place of Swatman
Bought for £1,157 by Fred A Oakes:
All that messe with granary, stables, coach house, yards, gardens, grounds approximately containing 2
roods together with the messe, cottage and other buildings recently erected on land lying on the east
of premises abutting on Puddingmoor, formerly in the occupation of HS Farr and now of Fred Oakes;
Waveney to the west, yards and gardens, late of James Safford, now of JC Webster, to the north [St
Peter’s House]; Driftway to the river on the south.
Sale of HS Farr: Waveney House bought by Mr JK Garrod for FA Oakes, present occupier £1160
COURT CASE: Rede v Oakes. Concerning sale of property of Robert Rede. Oakes had purchased part
of the Estate for £16,500, but details were not properly described.
SALE of FURNITURE:: Furniture of FA Oakes, Esq., Waveney House, Puddingmoor. The Residence

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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is being sold.
SALE of FURNITURE: Waveney House, Beccles. Household Furniture of F St Claire Williams, Esq, who is
going abroad.

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1917 
 
 
 
1917 
1920 
1973 

SALE of FURNITURE: Waveney House, Puddingmoor. Mr W Garrard leaving the Town.
Household Furniture, Cabinet Piano, Culinary and general domestic requisites, Rowing Boat, Garden
Tools, about 200 bedding plants.

DEATH ON ACTIVE SERVICE: Mr Andre Levy-Strauss, who married Lucy, daughter of the late
Clifford Smith, JP of Waveney House, Puddingmoor. He left South Africa for France on the  
outbreak of War.. He was born in Paris in 1875, came from an Alsatian family & was a mining  
engineer. He originally went to South Africa during the Boer War. 

WAVENEY HOUSE, Puddingmoor: Concert in the Garden.
SALE: HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE: Mrs Clifford Smith, No 2, PUDDINGMOOR

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Dr Rede [brother of William Rede and Rector of Beccles before the Reformation]
William Leman, for 2 tenements next [to Waveney House] late Chapman & before Dr Rede Task 1s
Thomas Utber
Renaldo Pitfield [died 1700; owner of property in Beccles including the White Lion in Newmarket]

1714 
 
1764 
 
1768 
 
 
1785 

Richard Twiss, [beerbrewer; Member of XXIV 1714, resigned 1719; Churchwarden 1716; Feoffee
1717] for a tent late Pitfield before that Utber
Robert Le Grys [surgeon and owner of much property in Beccles], tent late Richard Twiss, before
Pitfield, formerly Utber in Puddingmoor 
William Crowfoot, [he married Robert Le Grys’s widow and moved from St Peter’s house where he was
a tanner here and became a brewer] formerly Pitfield and Utber, afterwards of Richard Twiss and late
of Robert Le Grys 
Thomas Farr, for a tenement late Robert Le Grys, before Twiss in Puddingmoor

Task 1s
 

 
1841 
1851 
1861 
1871 
1875 
1880 
1881 
1881 

owner
Farr, Thomas 
Farr, HS
Farr, HS
Oakes, Frederick
Oakes, Frederick
Parker, Charles
Parker, Charles
 

occupant 
Farr, Thomas 
Farr, HS
Vaughan, WH 
Oakes, Frederick
Slade, late 
Garrard, William
Pickthall, JC 
Garden & Stables

occupier 
retired brewer 
brewer
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
£73 5s
£64
£67 5s
£63
£63
£42
£42
£21

Charles  PICKTHALL 
Alice  PICKTHALLM 
Unname PICKTHALL  
John M. PICKTHALL 
Rose CHAMBERLIN 
(Fundholder)
Harriett EVERETT
Emma S. TURRELL 
Harriett NAPTHINE 

M 
21 
1 m 
U 
W 

31 
F 
F 
24 
49 

M 
Norwich, Norfolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
M 
F 

Daur
Orford, Suffolk, England 
Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Brother
Wifes Step MotherIncome from Private Means

72 
U 
U 

F 
18 
20 

Raydon, Suffolk, England 
F 
F 

Nurse 
Weston, Suffolk, England 
South Cove, Suffolk, England

Monthly Nurse
Servant
Servant

Domestic Servant Housemaid
Domestic Cook

1885 
1890 
1895 
1899 
1904 
1906/07 Survey
occupants
1907 
1914 
1914-1918 WAR SERVICE

Parker, Charles
Pickthall, Chas
Pickthall, Chas
Smith, Clifford 
Smith, Clifford 
late Clifford Smith 

Pickthall, Charles
Calwell, Wm H 
Calwell, Wm H 
Smith, Clifford [he died in 1906 aged 56] 
Smith, Clifford 
Mrs Smith 

£45
£45
£45
£45
£75
10 bedrooms, 4 Sitting Rooms, 7

 
dwelling 

Smith, Clifford Mrs
Smith, Clifford Mrs

DREW, CA 
SMITH, Buxton 
SMITH, Cyril C 

2 
2 
2 

Puddingmoor 
Puddingmoor 
Puddingmoor 

 
1915 
1915 

Machine Gun Corps
Royal Field Artillery 
Labour Corps 

Private
 
Pte 

wounded 1918
Lt-Col
 

1922 
1927 
1933+
1936 
1948 
1954 
1965 
1974  until 2001

 
 
Forward, Wm Bryan 
 
 
 
 
 

Hartley, Charles
Hartley, Charles
Forward, Wm Bryan 
Forward, Bryan
Forward, Bryan
Forward, Bryan
Waveney House Hotel
Waveney House Hotel

 
Ho, Gdn, Grounds 
Town Clerk of Beccles

SALE BECCLES, SUFFOLK late CF Parker 16 August 1902.
LOT 1. [with photographs and map]
THE ATTRACTIVE FREEHOLD MODERN
River-Side Residence,
and GROUNDS known as the GROTTO, situate on the Banks and overlooking the picturesque Valley of the River Waveney, and
affording uninterrupted communication with the famous Norfolk Broads and Rivers.
The Residence, substantially built of Red Brick with Bath Stone Dressings, and Slated Roof, contains:
IN BASEMENT.  Large Coal Cellar, Wood and Knife Houses, Wine Cellar, and spacious Larder
ON GROUND FLOOR
Scullery, with Stove, Copper and Furnace, Stone Sink fitted with Hot and Cold and Soft Water Taps.
Kitchen. 14 ft. 9ins by 12ft., with 4ft. Cooking Range, Two recess Closets, and Two-light Gas Pendant. Pantry and Storeroom fitted
with Shelving and Drawers.
Entrance Hall, 32ft. by 5ft. 6ins, with Porch Entrance to Gardens, Side Hall with entrance to Yard.
Drawing Room. with Bay Window, 21ft. by 14ft.10ins and 11ft 3in height, with Slow Combution Stove, Tiled Hearth and Black
Marble Mantlepiece, Venetian Blinds, and two Gas Brackets
Dining Room, wit Bay Window, 21ft 3in by 15ft  and 11ft 3in height, with Slow Combustion Stove, Tiled Hearth and Black Marble
Mantlepiece, Venetian Blinds and three-light Gas Pendant.
Breakfst Room, 15ft by 10ft 3 in, with French Windows, opening upon Verandah overlooking the Gardens, with Register Stove,
Tiled Hearth, Enamelled Slate Mantlepiece andl Two-light Gas Pendant.
ON THE FIRST FLOOR
1st Bedroom, 18ft.6in.by 15ft. 6in., with Register Stove and Gas Bracket.
2nd Bedroom. 18ft 6in by 15ft 6in, with Register Stove and Gas Bracket.
3rd Bedroom, 14ft. 9in. by 10ft. 3in., withi Register Stove ansi Gas Bracket.
4th Bedroom, 17ft 3in by 15ft 3in., with Register Stove and Gas Bracket.
5th Bedroom, ,10ft 6in by 9ft, with Register Stove and Gas Bracket.
6th Bedroom, , 10ft 3in by 9ft, with Gas Bracket.
Bath Room and Lavatory, with 6ft. Roman Bath fitted with Hot and Cold Water; and  also WC.
ON THE SECOND FLOOR. Tlree good Servants’ Bedrooms.
IN THE BACK YARD are WC., Dog’s Kennel with enclosed Concrete Yard, and Water is laid on.
THE GLASS HOUSES,
comprise —Span-Roof Conservatory, 15ft. 9in, by 15ft. 3in., with Tiled Floor, and fitted with Centre and Side Flower Stands.
Fernery adjoining, 16ft. by 8ft., lined with Virgin Cork and Bark.
Vinery, 30ft. 6in. by 14ft., containing Twelve Vines in full bearing, including Muscat, Hamboro’, Alicante, and Lady Down.
Peach House, 31ft. by 14ft., containing Two Choice Trees in full bearing; and
Span-Roof Cucumber House, 26ft. Gin, by 11ft., all heated by Hot Water Pipes
Also an Eight-light Melon Pit, 28ft. by 5ft. 6in.
THE GROUNDS,

approached by Terrace Steps from the House, consist of  Tastefully Laid-out sloping Flower Garden and Tennis Lawn, extending to
the Riverside, with Two Rustic Summmer Houses, and Private Landing Stage 33ft. in length, with Steps, and Two Boat Houses, 18ft
by 7ft. and 18ft. by 6in. respectively ; also

PRODUCTIVE KITCHEN GARDEN,
Well-planted with Fruit Trees and Bushes, and containing Brick and Tiled Potting House. A boarded fowls House  and Run, with
Corrugated Iron Roof, the whole enclosed by Brick Walls planted with choice fruit Trees

THE BRICK AND TILED STABLING,
consists of Lofty Stall and Loose Box, Harness House with Stove, and Carriage House, with Large Loft over all.

POSSESSION of the RESIDENCE and GROUNDS may be had on Completion of the Purchase, and of the STABLING (which is now
occupied by Mr. J. S. Branford, at the Annual Rent of £4) at the same time, if required.
Adjoining the Grotto, and included in this Lot, is a Small

1902 
1902 
 
1914 
 
 
 
 

Changes to Telport for Major Barrett by Banham
Planning  permission  in  Puddingmoor  for  Major  Barrett  approved.  Alterations  to  House  in Puddingmoor for

7 Oct 
Major Barrett 

SPECIAL CONSTABLES: ex-Policemen, ex soldiers, & others accustomed to discipline: In cases of
emergency: 1) Raids or invasion, to maintain order and guard communications. 2) Consequences of  
war: internal disorder due to unemployment, reduced food supplies, etc. 3) Industrial disputes.  
numbers at present: 3,616. Will be provided with appointment card, a badge, a whistle and a staff.
Divisional Officer: JP Larkman; Sub Division: Major SL Barrett (Telport, Puddingmoor)

Well-Built of White Brick and Flint, with Slated Roof, known as WAVENEY LODGE, and containing Entrance
Hall ; Drawing Room with Bay Window, 16ft, 9in. by 12ft. 9in., with Register Stove, Closet in recess, and Gas
Bracket ; Dining Room. 13ft. by 12ft., with Stove and Gas Bracket ; Kitchen with Stove, Copper, Oven, and Stone
Sink fitted with Watetworks and Soft Water taps, pantry, Cellar, Three Bedrooms and Box Room, with Small Yard
having Side Entrance and containing Coal House, Wood House and w.c., now in the occupation of Miss Emily
Kerridge, as quarterly tenant at the Annual Rent of £12.

A Fire-proof iron Safe in Basement, Three Gas Stoves, Lavatory and other Fixtures in the Grotto of which a Schedule will be produced and may be
obtained of the Auctioneers, have been valued at the sum of twenty-five Pounds, which shall be paid by the Purchaser in addition to the Purchase
prize.
The Vendors reserve the right of holding a Sale by Auction of the Furniture and Effects at the Grotto before the date of completion of the Purchase .

OUTGOINGS [for whole of Grotto property]:
 
 
 

Land Tax as assessed.
Tithe Rent-Charge, commuted at 7s. Present Value 
Free Rent to the Manor of Roos Hall and Ashmans 

 
. 
.. 

18s 10d 
   4s  8d.
        9d.

1879 
 
1882 
1888 
1892 
1902 
1906/07 Survey
1907 
1914 
1914-1918 WAR SERVICE

Not listed in the Directory of 1879, but it appears in that of 1882. There is no mention of anyone living there in
the 1881 Census, so presumably built between 1881 and 1882.
Parker Charles 
Parker Charles 
Parker, Charles
Parker, Charles
Barrett, Major 
Barrett, Sidney
 

 
 
 
 
Barrett, Major 
 
 

Parker, Charles
Parker, Charles
Parker, Charles
Parker, Charles

dwelling 
Barrett, Major Sidney (O.W)                      £90
Barrett, Major Sidney

1927 
1933+
1936 
1948 
1954 
1965 

 
Barrett, Beatrice
 
 
 
 

Barrett, Major Sidney
Barrett, Beatrice
Barrett, Mrs
Harper, Sir Kenneth
Gilbert, Edward
Gilbert, Edward

Originally built as the Lodge to Waveney House [Hotel]. Already built at the time of the Sale in July 1863, described as
“the white brick built and slated Gothic Lodge” and “The Lodge comprises two sitting rooms, back kitchen, three bedrooms etc.”
It was designed Nathaniel Pells, and would have been one of his first designs. (see Pells Drawings List B No 8)
in 1902 it belonged to The Grotto or Telport (as it was subsequently called)

Sale of the Grotto 16 August 1902 (property of CF Parker)
GABLED RESIDENCE,
Well-Built of White Brick and Flint, with Slated Roof, known as WAVENEY LODGE, and containing Entrance
Hall ; Drawing Room with Bay Window, 16ft, 9in. by 12ft. 9in., with Register Stove, Closet in recess, and Gas
Bracket ; Dining Room. 13ft. by 12ft., with Stove and Gas Bracket ; Kitchen with Stove, Copper, Oven, and Stone
Sink fitted with Watetworks and Soft Water taps, pantry, Cellar, Three Bedrooms and Box Room, with Small Yard
having Side Entrance and containing Coal House, Wood House and w.c., now in the occupation of Miss Emily
Kerridge, as quarterly tenant at the Annual Rent of £12.

 
1851 
1861 
1871 
1881 
1881 CENSUS:

OWNER 
probably not built at that time
Farr, HS
Oakes, Frederick
Parker, Charles

Farr, HS
Smith, Frederick
Chase, Caleb

167 
168 
169 

Pud 
Pud 
Pud 

No 6 
Caleb CHASE 
Mary CHASE 

 
Barsham, Suffolk, England 
London, Middlesex, England

Parker, Charles
Head 
Wife

£11
Printer Clerk

M 
M 

21 
27 

M 
F 

1896 
1902 
1906/7 Survey
1907 
1914 
1927 
1936 
1948 
1954 
1965 
1974 
 

Parker, Charles
Parker, Charles
part of Telport (No 4)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

?
Kerridge, Miss

?
?
?
?
?
Cottle, Charles
Pugh, G
Roberts, EM

1740 
 
 
 
 
 
1761 
1772 
1778 
 
 
 
 
habitable  
fit for a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
other
that the
 
 
 
1786 
 
1799 
 
 
 
 
 

Beccles Church Terrier :
The site of the Rectory and Dwelling House having in it three low rooms with three chambers above. A
little stable adjoining to it on the south side in the midst of the yards thereto belonging, used  
immemorially for a Stath Yard being bounded on the west by the River Waveney, on the East by the
Common Highway, on the north by a narrow Common Passage to the River, and on the south by houses
and lands belonging lately to William Barns now to Robert Bolt.
Rev Page 
Rev Peter Routh, late Page for Beccles Rectory House 

 
Rent 7d 1/2d

Faculty Book, Norwich. [Letter sent to the Bishop's Court]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gentleman of Beccles and John Assey, Gentleman, Commissioners to inspect the Parsonage, did view  
the Parsonage 27 day of November and confirm:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Petition from Rev Bence Sparrow, Rector and Robert Sparrow of Worlingham, Esq and Mary Bence of
Henstead, Spinster, the true and undoubted patrons, showing that the Parsonage House is a very small
old brick building covered with thatch and contains only two rooms on a floor and has been for many
years  supported  by  props  to  prevent  its  falling  down.  That  it  is  impossible  to  make  the  building
 
cottage and not a sufficient habitation for the Rector and his family. That the materials of the said house
are so rotten that they are not worth more than the sum of twelve pounds. Wherefore we pray you
would grant a licence to take down the said Parsonage.
Whereas Rev Robt Leman, Rector of Willingham All Saints otherwise Ellough, Rev Peter Routh, rector
of South Elmham St Peter with St Margaret, Rev James Safford, Vicar of Mettingham, William Elmy,

is situated within the Parish of Beccles in a Yard abutting on the Common Way towards the East, on the
River Waveney towards the West, on the estate of Mr William Crowfoot towards the North and on the
estate of    Preston, Widow, towards the South; Containing in lenght North to South forty feet and in
breadth East to West nineteen feet, consisting of a parlour twenty feet long sixteen feet wide and a
 
 
height of the building and the dimensions of the chamber could not be safely taken. That the Yard or
spot of land in which the Parsonage is situated measures 95ft from North to South and 220ft from East
to West.
(Grant to take down and dilapidate the Parsonage and not be rebuilt)
Rev Bence Sparrow [later Bence Bence], piece of land whereon late stood a messe
called the Parsonage in Puddingmoor (later Charles Maplestone) 
Conveyance of Glebe Lands
Conveyance by Rev Bence Sparrow of Glebe Lands belonging to the Rectory of Beccles.
Indenture between Rev Bence Sparrow [and others] and William Elmy, Esq to sell for £300 19s 6d of
the site of the Parsonage House now used as a Staithe and in the occupation of Charles Maplestone,
Robert Chinery and William Denny containing 2 roods or thereabouts...
[numerous other pieces of land were also sold]

kitchen 26ft in length & 24ft in width, formerly divided by partitions into kitchen, pantry and
offices, both rooms six foot and a half in height. That the whole is in so ruinous a condition

1799 
Indenture BETWEEN Bence Sparrow [later called Bence Bence] of the FIRST PART
Commissioners of the Land Tax SECOND PART
William Elmy of Beccles THIRD PART
Selling ALL the Glebe Lands of the Manor for £300 to William Elmy to redeem the Land Tax on other properties owned by the
Church.
ALL THAT site of the Parsonage house of Beccles used as a Staithe now in the occupation of Charles Maplestone I, [1752-1826]
Robert Chenery & William Denny.

1808 
Indenture BETWEEN Rev Bence Bence of Beccles, clerk & Harriet Bence his wife, then late Harriet Elmy, spinster, the only
daughter & heiress at law of William Elmy of the FIRST PART
Charles Maplestone II the younger of Beccles, [born 1781] cabinet maker SECOND PART
William Barnard, gent THIRD PART
William Elmy died 9 June 1808 (stated on the Deed, but corrected in the margin of the Abstract to 9 June 1801)
Charles Maplestone to Purchase for £340.  
In Trinity Term at the expense of Bence Bence in Trinity Term levy unto Barnard a fine sur Cognizance de droit come ceo.
ALL THAT piece of Land formerly used as a Common Staithe, & known as the Common Staithe with the Limekiln, Chalkhouse,
Cottages, Warehouse & Granary built with the gardens & yards belonging to the cottages contained in 0a 2r 31p
ABUTTING  on a Lane or Watering Way NORTH
the Messuage, Yard & Premises of Charles Chinery SOUTH
Puddingmoor to the EAST
River Waveney to the WEST
in the occupations of Charles Maplestone & William Barnard, & Robert Chipperfield, Thomas Collyer, William Spratt & Thomas
Hurry.
Warranty to the use of William Barnard & his heirs, To the uses against him and all other persons except Matthias Abel in respect
of a lease from 6 July for 10 years from 6 July 1803.

1808 
Indenture BETWEEN William Barnard, Plaintiff
& Bence Bence & Harriet, his wife & John Francis Browne Bohun, Deforciants
One Messuage, one Tenement, one Stable, one Coachhouse & 6 acres of Land in Beccles & Ingate.

1812 
 
1827 
Indenture BETWEEN Charles Maplestone II the younger [born 1781] of ONE PART
Thomas Norton of Beccles, druggist & chemist OTHER PART
Witness for £400 bargained & demised land etch to Thomas Norton for a term of 1000 years at peppercorn rate if demanded
NOW in the occupation of Charles Maplestone, Widow Hawke, Samuel Love, William Gooch, William Barber, James Gray, -
Goodings, James Bull & William Green

Charles Maplestone, the younger, land whereon lately stood a messe formerly the
Parsonage  

 
13 March

1838 
Indentures of Lease & Appointment BETWEEN Charles Maplestone the elder II [born 1781], farmer FIRST PART
Thomas Norton of SECOND PART
Charles Maplestone the younger III, [born 1809] builder THIRD PART
Sold by Charles Maplestone the Elder to Charles Maplestone the younger for £700 [including £400 mortgage to Norton]
ORIENTATIONS the same except for:
LATE in the occupation of Charles Maplestone the elder, Widow Hawke, Samuel Love, William Gooch, William Barber, James Gray,
- Goodings, Samuel Bull & William Green
NOW in the occupation of Charles Maplestone the younger, Samuel Gray, John Davey, George Hawkes, Widow Love &
William Barber, except for three tenements which were then unoccupied

1838 
Richard Bohun lends another £100 on Mortgage at 4 &1/2%

1839 
Indenture BETWEEN Charles Maplestone, then of Ipswich, cabinet maker FIRST PART
Richard Bohun SECOND PART
Thomas Norton THIRD PART
Nathaniel Pells of Beccles, builder FOURTH PART;

DIVISION A
1839 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Coal-bins, Sawing-shed, Warehouses, and Stables, Granary & Hay-loft, Gig-house and Cart-lodge, all in  
excellent repair, judiciously arranged in a large Yard, and having a Frontage of sixty-five feet next the  
navigable River Waveney.
 
 
 

SALE: 10 May 1839:  
LOT 2:- A Capital & well-accustomed Lime Kiln, in Puddingmoor, with Chalk-House, two excellent

This Lot, from its situation and the extent of the buildings, offers great facilities for enlarging the Trade
already attached to it, in the sale of Lime, Coals, Bricks, Tiles, Laths, and Building Materials in general
Apportioned Free-rent to Manor of Rosehall 3d 1/2d

1839 
Indenture BETWEEN Nathaniel Pells of Beccles, carpenter of ONE PART
Thomas Norton of Beccles, chemist & druggist the OTHER PART
WITNESS that in consideration of £320 to Nathaniel Pells lent by Thomas Norton as Mortgage for
ALL THAT piece of Land with the Limekiln, Chalkhouses, Coalhouses, Warehouses, Stable, Coachhouses & other Buildings
BOUNDED by a Common Lane NORTH
Puddingmoor in part & premises lately sold by Charles Maplestone to Joseph Farrow EAST
Premises of Joseph Farrow SOUTH
The same premises in part & the River Waveney WEST
Lately in the occupation of Charles Maplestone. Lent at the Rate of £4 10s per pound %.

1840 
 

Nathaniel Pells, carpenter, part of land whereon lately stood a messe, formerly
the Parsonage in Puddingmoor, late Charles Maplestone  [north end of property]

1845 
Indenture BETWEEN Mary Ann Maddison of Herringfleet, spinster FIRST PART
Nathaniel Pells of Beccles, carpenter SECOND PART
Samuel Pells of Beccles, yeoman THIRD PART
WHEREAS Indenture 27 May 1839 between Nathaniel Pells & Thomas Norton
ALL THAT Land with the Lime-kiln, Chalkhouses, Coalhouses, Warehouses, Stable, Coachhouse & other Buildings
Bounded by Common Lane NORTH
Puddingmoor in part & premises lately sold by Charles Maplestone the younger to Joseph Farrow EAST
The premises sold to Joseph Farrow SOUTH
The same premises in part & the River Waveney WEST
Mortgage of £320 at rate of £4 10s % - increased in 1840 by £80
Nathaniel Pells has since erected a Dwelling House & other buildings on the site.
1841 Mortgage transferred to Mary Maddison.
Mortgage for £400 transferred to Samuel Pells.
Samuel Pells Died 17 December 1853, leaving Nathaniel Pells his only son all his money & security for monies. Nathaniel Pells
became entitled to all the principal & interest of the Estate.
1916 

 
 
 
1917 
 
 
 
1917 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Puddingmoor when she fell in the water.. Her mother had left the children playing at 2 Hungate
Lane and went to Mr Watson’s the chemist. A juryman asked if there was sufficient protection
against this sort of thing happening again. The Coroner was asked to write to the corporation.

JUVENILE BURGLARIES: Mr Holmes, shopkeeper, Ravensmere, had  a cash-box stolen
containing £37-10s; from Mr Hipperson’s house in Puddingmoor a gold & a metal watch were  
stolen; from a lock-up shop in Newmarket cigarettes were  stolen; a silver cigarette case was stolen  
from a private house. Two Beccles boys were  found with filed down keys. Boys remanded.

A DANGEROUS DOCK: Children were playing at the Dock near the back of Mr Hipperson,s  
premises in Puddingmoor and three of them fell in. Miss Marjorie Hipperson, in spite of a motor-boat
being in the way, dived in with her clothes on, and swimming under the ropes of the motor-boat  
rescued them from drowning. Ever since the dredger has removed the little bank that ran out at this
spot, there has been a drop of several feet and the children who paddle there do not know this. Some
years ago the Coroner asked if something could not be done to prevent children falling in and getting
drowned. The danger is greater now than it was then.

PUDDINGMOOR 10-16
1902 
 
 

Sale by the Executors of Nathaniel Pells:- Lot 5
Puddingmoor: Range of four well built Brick & Tile Cottages with garden in occupation of
D Pleasants [No 10]; W Ellis [No 12]; RJ Kersey [No 14]; & G Gray [No 16]

1841 
1851 
1861 
1871 
1881 
1881 CENSUS:

Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel

Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel
Pells, Nathaniel

£25
£22 5s
£35 3s
£35 
£35

[with lime kiln]
[with lime kiln]

170 
171 
172 
173 

Pud 
Pud 
Pud 
Pud 

No 8 
Arthur PELLS    
Louisa A.S. PELLS
Sarah BULLEN 

 
30 
24 
14 

 
M 
F 
F 

 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Beccles, Suffolk, England 
Shipmeadow, Suffolk, England

£35
Builder Master Employing 11 Men & 2 Boys
Wife
Servant

M 
M 
U 

1896 
1904 
1906/07 Survey
1907 
1914 
1927 
1933+
1936 
1939-45 WAR SERVICE
HIPPERSON, Harold H. M. 1941

Pells exors
Pells, exors 
Hipperson, Herbert 
 
 
 
Hipperson, Edith
 

Hipperson, Herbert
Hipperson, Herbert  
Hipperson Bros
Hipperson Bros
Hipperson, HE 
Hipperson, Herbert 
Hipperson, HE 

dwelling 
builders
 
boat builder
Ho, bldgs, boat builder, Wharf 
boat builder

1948 
1954 
1965 
1974 
1974 

Hipperson, HE 
Hipperson, HE 
Hipperson, HE 
Hipperson, HE 
Harrison, Desmond

boat builder
boat builder
boat builder
boat builder