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Lilac Cottage
Lilac cottage was built by Michael Drury in 1981. It is semi-detached with High bank. He bought the land for Lilac cottage and High Bank from Alfred King of Trunch. Mr King had bought the land in 1977 from the estate of Laura Knights of Garden farm who had died that year. His intention had been to build three houses on the plot and he had applied for planning permission in 1977. He never did build the houses, eventually selling the land to Michael and Mary Drury in 1980.
The land had previously been owned by Laura’s father Frederick William Knights and before him by John Knights and before him by her great great Grandfather Charles Knights, who died in 1916. It had previously been described as wasteland next to the Pit.
The house was sold again in 1983 to John and Mary Peck and again in 2004 when Rosemary and Allan Burrell the current owners bought it. The original house has been extended.