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Oak Tree Cottage, Old Red Cow pub (RGL2025)

Oak Tree Cottage, Old Red Cow, Church End, Hilton

History of Oak Tree Cottage

Listed Building

C15 open hall with C17 cross-wing at left hand.

Dora Tack describes this as the thatched farmhouse of the White-Robinsons (which used to be the Old Red Cow public house). Jim Robinson and his wife Jinny sold greengrocery from a shed at the back of the farmhouse. His father, ‘Grandad Robinson’, and his mother also helped in the business.

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