Hope Cottage, Button End, Harston

History of Hope Cottage

Listed Building

Very little is known about the origins of Hope Cottage but it appears to have been built around the C17. The timber frame has primary bracing, suggestive of a C17 or later date, and back-to-back fireplaces indicating a lobby entry house, also consistent with a C17 date.

1940 north cottage lived in by Jackson family

Pre 1968: two cottages.

1968 planning permission granted to convert to one cottage. In the 1970s Peggy Johnson and James Stokes stripped the cottages to their wooden frames and then restored them.

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In the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History, no.32  (2024) Hilary Roadley wrote an article about the recent history and restoration of Hope Cottage.