The story of 10 and 11 Stanton

Stanton Parish History Recording Project

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History of 10 and 11 Stanton-upon-Hine Heath

We are not sure of the exact year the cottages were built. The first record we have found for the properties is a sale in 1891, which included the two cottages. The sale is made by Roland Clegg- Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill of Hawkstone Hall and the cottages are sold to a Reverend Patrick Grimes. The 3rd Viscount Hill was declared bankrupt in 1894, so I can only imagine the sale was prompted by rising debts.

Reverend Patick Grimes lived at The Vicarage in Stanton-upon-Hine Heath and was the parish vicar from 1871 to 1916. He died in 1918 and is buried in St Andrew’s church yard. Patrick’s son, Charles Hugh Duffy Grimes was the executor of his estate and lived in Australia at the time of his father’s death.

On 24th October 1922, Charles Grimes sells the cottages to William Warburton Hayes who was living at Harcourt.

On 11 March 1953, William Hayes dies and is survived by his wife Anne Kynaston Hayes and son th Captain Frederick Hayes. At the time of his death his estate includes mention of 10, 11, 12 & 13 Stanton, Castle View and Reading Room. (see plan below, plot numbers marked 515).

On 15 August 1956, Captain Hayes inherits his father’s estate. On 5 March 1957, Captain Hayes thth sells 11 Stanton to John and Sarah Ryder, who were the tenants, for £350.

On 17th March 1957, Captain Hayes sells 10 Stanton to George (Bert) and Gladys Moore, who were tenants in the cottage. The property is described as ‘ Dwelling house incorporating a Post Office

and yard and garden situated at Stanton-upon Hine Heath in the county of Salop and know as No. 10 Stanton (Post Office) containing 101 decimal parts of an acre or there-abouts’ and the property is purchase for £550. No 10 remains the Post Office with Gladys as the Post Mistress until her retirement. The Moores then convert the post office space into a garage, adding the garage door.

Sarah Ryder dies on 1st March 1963 and John later the same month on the 30th and the property is inherited by Annie Hayes who lives in Coventry. It is sold by her on 16th August 1963 for £480 to Ernest Hayes, who had been living locally in High Hatton.

Ernest lived at No 11 until his death on 9th June 1983 and was buried in St Andrew’s church yard. The property is inherited by his daughter Elsie and her husband George Tong, who sell it for £15,500 on 17 December 1986 to Terry Elvins and Lisa Jennings. The property brochure below was kindly th given to us by Elsie Tong.

No 11 quickly changes hands again and is sold to Dominic Goddard and Kerry Birkett on 4th September 1987 for £25,000. During the time they lived in the cottage they became Mrs and Mrs Goddard. On 2nd August 1991 they sell No 11 for £47,000 to Colin and Ruth Bradbury. Colin had been the vicar for Stanton and Moreton Corbett from 1981 to 1990. Unfortunately, the documents relating to the sale by the Bradbury’s to the next purchaser, Peter McDonough, are missing. However, from memory of the conversations we had during our purchase of the property, I think the McDonoughs lived there for approximately 18 months. On 1st June 1999 we bought No 11 for £67,500 from the McDonoughs. We lived here happily until the winter of 2001, when expecting our first child James, we decided it was time to move to a bigger house and put No 11 on the market. On 10th December 2001, Bert dies after a short illness and as Gladys had already died on 25th February 1986 , Bert’s nephew applies for probate and we negotiate with him to buy No 10 for £72,500, completing on 12 April 2002. This enables us to make a th family home large enough for us to stay in the village and we take No 11 off the market.

We begin the building work later in 2002 to amalgamate the two properties, after legally combining the properties as 11 Stanton-upon-Hine Heath on 18th July 2002.

In May 2005 we have our second child Daniel, and in the spring of 2006 convert the garage into a downstairs toilet and extra living space. At the same time, we also excavate part of the garden to enlarge the driveway to accommodate three cars (rather than the previous arrangement of one car in the garage and one on the driveway).