(Grade II listed in 1956 as "cottage in row, formerly two")
(Grade II listed in 1956 as "cottage in row, formerly two")
The photographs are more than a little confusing ~ the porched doorway in each of them belongs to what is now called 2 Rodden Row, but it was originally the right-hand one of two porches, each serving a tiny cottage: the one-time left-hand porch, serving no 4, is now a small window. There was also, many years ago, a door which might have led to a third cottage, which is just visible, by the corner of the building, in the left-hand photograph, but has now long since weathered in and is today largely concealed by the shrubs. That right-hand end of the terrace is now part of 1 Rosemary Lane.
No 2 was turned into a single house in the 1970's, before the Appreciation was written. Even so, there was still restoration work to be done in the late 1980's, when it changed hands once more: the house was full of Marley tiles, which all had to be ripped out and removed. Changing hands once more in 2007, the house is now being restored to something of its original decor.
At that time (c.1988/89) all the gardens on this side of Rodden Row were open at the back, and the area behind them may have been the village dump ~ certainly there was a great deal of scrap iron there, as well as blue and white china. The house is once more in the process of changing hands: despite the timeless image of the village, there is fairly constant population movement here.