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The house
Lea Hall, built 1750
Lea Hall was built in 1750 and has been lived in ever since. Stay with us and you'll know who slept in your room before you did.
Timeline
- 1750
Lea Hall is built. [Who built it, and why here.]
[Photo to come]Plate I · [Archive image: caption, date, source] - 1841
The first census entry: [household]. We know everyone who lived here from now on.
[Photo to come]Plate II · 1841 census, The National Archives [scan to add] - c.[year]
Lea Hall takes paying guests. [Who ran it.]
[Photo to come]Plate III · [Advert or visitor book page] - [dates]
[The owners' letters: who wrote them and to whom.]
- [year]
Fairy Cottage opens to guests.
- 2027
The Dovecote opens, summer 2027.
Who lived here
One entry per household from the 1841 census on, names and dates exactly as the records give them.
- [Name, exactly as recorded] [1841 to …]
[Occupation]. [One detail from the records] - [Name] [years]
[Occupation]. [One detail]
The guest-house years
[Who ran Lea Hall as a guest house, who stayed, and any adverts or visitor book pages. This section fills in from the archive doc in January.]
In their own words
[Two or three short extracts from the owners’ letters, each introduced in a line, with scans. Check permission before publishing any letter by a living person or their family.]
The buildings
Fairy Cottage was originally [its original use, and date]. The Dovecote was [its original use and date]. Both are being lived in again, a couple of centuries on.
The village
The Crown, the village shop and the woods, and how Lea has changed around the house. [Anything else from the archive.] The village shop, as one guest put it, “has everything you could think of”.
Know something about Lea Hall?
Past residents' families and people in the village have told us the best stories so far. If you know one, we'd love to hear it.
Tell usStay in the grounds
Fairy Cottage, the turret, open now. The Dovecote, opening summer 2027.