Bank Cottage, Papworth St Agnes

History of Bank Cottage

Two thatched cottages with white walls stand on a country lane, framed by dense foliage and a tall, overgrown garden hedge.

This is the cottage that Dora Tack moved into with her husband Frank and baby in August 1943. She numbers it 15 on her map.

Dora had previously lived with her mother at Lattenbury Hill.

Later the family would move to Hilton.

1942 The cottage was empty in this year. The tenant had been Miss Alice Poole, retired school mistress of papworth St Agnes School. In 1943 she gave up the tenancy.

It was really two cottages made into one home for the Rossins (13 children) when it was a tied cottage for Passhouse farm.

A thatched cottage with two small figures standing near the front door, set against dark trees on a raised grassy bank.

The cottage on the bank, Bank Cottage, Papworth St Agnes

White thatched cottage with dormer windows, a central chimney, and a wooden garden gate, surrounded by bushes and trees.

Passhouse Cottage, Papworth St Agnes (RGL2025)

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