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A two-storey brick house with three gabled dormers, decorative ridge cresting, and pointed-arch window panes behind a gate.

Halfpenny House, Halfpenny Lane, Elm

Halfpenny House, Halfpenny Lane, Elm

History of Halfpenny House

Listed Building

House, C.1841. Local brick with red brick dressings to door and window surrounds.

House built about 1841 by Captain Read for one of his daughters. Name believed to be because drainage rate for this area was halfpenny per acre.

Detailed Ordnance Survey map section showing buildings, land parcels, plot numbers, and Rose Cottage in Elm, circa 1900.

Elm OS 1900

Building dates

  • Built c. 1841
Source for this date
  • Built c. 1841: Listed building: C.1841 (grade II)

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