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Hill Cottage, Swaffham Bulbeck

Hill (Hillside) Cottage, Old Post Office, Swaffham Bulbeck

History of Hillside Cottage

Listed Building

Cottage with later outshut at the rear, probably early C18.

Hill Cottage, Swaffham Bulbeck

JA sent this note as well as the photos in 2025:

The cottage was originally two “one up one down” dwellings; it is still possible to see where the two front doors were and there is evidence of the dividing wall. It is not known whether is was a farm labourer’s cottage or associated with either the nearby clunch quarry (possibly the source of the clunch used to construct the gable ends), or the windmill that stood on the hill behind the cottage. What is known is that it was the village Post Office until the middle of the last century; some older residents of the village still refer to it as “the old Post Office”

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