We have been really interested to find out about the story of Cole Street Farm. When we bought the premises the estate agent's details said the farmhouse was 300 years old, but so far the only reference we have found is by Charles Howe in his 1983 book 'Gylla's Hometown - How a Saxon Settlement became an English Country Town'. More recently, the place was owned by Mr. White (born in 1900) who had lived here as a child and was given the farm for his 21st birthday. In 1989 the 230 acres was divided up and the buildings sold to Mr. and Mrs Hawkett, who undertook the conversion of barns to holiday cottages. At this time Sette Brook barn was used as a nursery school. They sold it on, moving to Australia.
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