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The Street

  • Dec 20, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: 4 days ago


Photographs only: see separate entries for: Street House; Wheelers Farm; Opening of Wheelers Farm Granary; Wild Goose; The Lodge; Boxalls; Vine Cottage; Sunset Cottage; Prospect Cottage; Streetfield; Little Green; A Walk Through Old Thursley: * denotes separate entry.








HATCH COTTAGES


Hatch Cottage, the extension was built on for the Hacks. According to Ann Levy there had been a village shop at the other end

No 1 and No 2 Hatch Cottages. Surnames of previous owners include: No 1 - Court; Williams; Knight; Thompson; Dupont; Knight - No 2 - Court; Hack; Hockley; Campbell; Ashley; Boyd
No 1 and No 2 Hatch Cottages. Surnames of previous owners include: No 1 - Court; Williams; Knight; Thompson; Dupont; Knight - No 2 - Court; Hack; Hockley; Campbell; Ashley; Boyd
Bert and Nellie Williams outside No 1 Hatch Cottages
Bert and Nellie Williams outside No 1 Hatch Cottages

Hatch Cottages were sold in 1952 as part of the break-up of the Cosford Estate. The entries below are from the auction catalogue.





1 Hatch Cottages, from estate agent's particulars June 2026
1 Hatch Cottages, from estate agent's particulars June 2026


THE COTTON HOUSE, formerly RACKS CLOSE

Racks Close is an unmade road on the left immediately after Hatch Cottages

Racks Close in the early 1990s
Racks Close in the early 1990s

It has now been extensively modernised and renamed 'The Cotton House'.

View from Racks Close from a postcard posted in 1910. The two large deciduous trees are no longer there and on the left is the granary of Hill Farm Barns, then Hill Farm House, The Old Parsonage, Hatch Cottages and St Michael & All Angels.
View from Racks Close from a postcard posted in 1910. The two large deciduous trees are no longer there and on the left is the granary of Hill Farm Barns, then Hill Farm House, The Old Parsonage, Hatch Cottages and St Michael & All Angels.
Sisterly angst on the rear of the postcard!
Sisterly angst on the rear of the postcard!

THE LODGE*


Wheelwrights and The Street. John Goble and his wife moved to Wheelwrights in Thursley in 1902 to become the village blacksmith and wheelwright.







Cruiser Mk IV tanks of 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Armoured Brigade, 1st Armoured Division, drive down The Street in July 1940


WHEELWRIGHTS*


Wheelwrights (HM Land Registry Map below)

Mr Goble and son Robert
Mr Goble and son Robert

Jean and Arthur Moss
Jean and Arthur Moss

Sale particulars in September 2025:



SUNSET COTTAGE*



WILD GOOSE*




PROSPECT (formerly THE INSTITUTE)*



HARVESTERS


From a 2008 sales brochure
From a 2008 sales brochure
June 2026
June 2026


THE GRANARY, WHEELERS FARM*




WHEELERS FARM*




LITTLE GREEN





STREET HOUSE*



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