Pitch Place, Houndown and Sailors Lane

David Young
Nov 21, 2023
2 min read

Updated: Sep 11

Work in progress...

The view taken near the corner of Sailors Lane from where The Pines now stands

Pitch Place, Long Acres (on Sailors Lane), built by Mr and Mrs Henry can be seen on the hill. The field that can be seen is known as Wonham's Field as Ben Wonham's father, George, farmed as a tenant of the Dye House Estate when the Gooch family owned it. The house in the picture was lived in by the Voller family.

*View From Kettlebury Hill, January 1985*

Houndown

John and Annete Graham-Stewart, 1977

Pitchfield Cottage

The Pines

Tim, Margaret and Stephen Walsh, The Pines, Sailors Lane, June 1996

Mulberry and Kettlebury Cottage

These properties at linked by a common boundary. Prior to the development of Mulberry c2013, the plot comprised agricultural buildings as can be seen from the photographs below.

*Mulberry was developed from a former farming/industrial site in 2013. This photograph is c2022. Kettlebury Cottage is on the right side of the photograph.*

*Photographs are from the sale brochure produced by Knight, Frank in 2024*

Full details were available here in July 2025: https://www.onthemarket.com/details/15038201/

Pitch Place Farm House

Entry from Historic England:

Pitch Place Farm House is a Grade II listed building (9th March 1960), built in the late 16th Century. Timber framed on rendered rubblestone plinth with whitewashed rubble and brick infilling, under plain tiled roof, hipped to right and with tile hung ends. Two storeys. Multiple ridge stack to left of centre. Four framed bays with chimney bay. Three C19 arched head casements to first floor under steep gabled dormers with scalloped bargeboards. Two plain casement windows to first floor. Two decorative C19 and two leaded casements to ground floor. Plank door to right end. Wing at right angles to rear and pentice to rear right.

All probably pre-WW2, note the entrance porch which does not feature on later photographs

Charles Barrington visited Pitch Place Farm when his grandfather lived there in the 1950s. Here he is with his grandfather. He has also written a book which includes his recollections of staying there. https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-book-reviews/what-did-you-do-in-the-great-war-grandfather-the-life-and-times-of-an-edwardian-horse-artillery-officer/:

This aerial view taken in the late 1970s, shows Pichino and its garden at the bottom left before it became a separate property, Kettlebury Cottage on the far left, together with the agricultural barns that are now the garden of Mulberry