The Pastures, Vicarage Road

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1814 Inclosures

Richard Jolly owned the farm and a piece of Copyhold land on the other side of the road:

The narrative from the Inclosures Commissioners that goes with the above map extract reads as follows:

And we assign and set out and allot unto Richard Jolly the four pieces of land next herein after described, namely:

First, one piece of land marked on the map hereto annexed No 176 containing one acre, two roods and ten perches with a messuage and other buildings standing thereon, bounded by the Wymondham Road or Palloway North, by the next described allotment east and in part south and by land allotted to Robert Herring on the remaining part of the south and wholly west;

Second, one other piece of land marked on the map hereto annexed No 175 containing one acre, two roods and eleven perches bounded by the last described allotment in part north and west, by the Wymondham Road or Palloway on the remaining part of the north and east, and by land allotted to the said Robert Herring south;

Third, one other piece of land marked on the map hereto annexed No 4 containing two acres, two roods and ten perches, bounded by land allotted to William Jolly north, by the third Private Road east, by the Wymondham Road or Palloway in part south, by land allotted to the said Robert Herring in part west and on the remaining part of the south, and by land allotted to Aaron Lane on the remaining part of the west; and

Fourth, one other piece of land marked on the map hereto annexed No 33 containing two roods and seventeen perches with two cottages standing thereon, bounded by the upper Hackford Road north west and by land allotted to Phenix [sic] east and south;

And we direct the said Richard Jolly to make and keep in repair the fences in his said allotments next herein after described, namely:
In his first and second allotments, against the allotment to Robert Herring, and
In his third allotment against the allotment to William Jolly and against the Public and Private Road .

And whereas the said Richard Jolly stands admitted to a messuage and two acres of land which are held of the Lord of the Manor of Deopham Hall by Copy of Court Roll,
Now we declare that the whole of his third allotment containing two acres. two roods and ten perches and the whole of his fourth allotment containing two roods and seventeen perches with the two cottages standing on the said fourth allotment shall be held by the said Richard Jolly of the Lord of the said Manor of Deopham Hall by Copy of Court Roll in lieu of the Copyhold hereditaments to which the said Richard Jolly so stands admitted and in respect of the rights of common appendant or appurtenant thereto.

Transcription © G. Sankey

1843 Tithe Apportionment

The analysis that accompanies the above map contains the following details for William Jolly as the Landowner:

Map reference	Landowner	Occupier	Location	Description	State of Cultivation	Quantity a – r – p			Payable to Vicar £ – s – d	Payable to appropriators £ – s – d
233	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James		Little planting pightle	Arable	1	1	8			12	0
234	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James	Hingham Rd	Farmhouse & yards	Pasture		1	30			2	6
235	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James		–	Arable		2	30			3	11
236	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James		Acre pightle	Arable	1	0	6			9	8
238	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James		* Little planting	Pasture			37				9
239	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James		*	Pasture		1	29			1	9
240	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James		*	Arable	1	3	29			16	1
241	JOLLY William	COLDHAM James		–	Arable	1	2	21			12	7
Totals						12	3	18

* the three pieces marked with asterisks in the above table correspond to the Copyhold land on the 1814 map; they total to 2 acres 2 roods and 15 perches, which almost corresponds to the 2a 2r 10p recorded in 1814.

Court Rolls

Piece no 4 (2 acres 2 roods & 10 perches) on the 1814 Inclosures Map (see above extract) is Copyhold of the Manor of Deopham Hall; as a result its history is well documented. Whilst there is no guarantee that the freehold land followed the same pattern as the Copyhold, it is highly likely.

Beneficiary	Link	Comments
Land awarded to Richard Jolly	Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall April 1814	Before inclosure, this plot contained a messuage called the Guildhouse. This building is also mentioned in the Court of December 29^th 1737 Piece no 4 passed to William Jolly in 1823 as recorded in the Deopham Hall Court Roll for October 28^th 1823.
Mary Ann Page	Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall November 1877
William Wood in trust for Georgiana Alice Canham	Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall June 1892	Following the death of Mary Ann Page

Kelly’s Directories

The 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1904 editions of Kelly’s Directory all recorded that Glass Bottle Farm was being run by John William Hart.
The 1901 census recorded that as well as the parents John and Anna, there were 5 sons and 3 daughters living in this farmhouse.
John Hart was involved in very public disputes with the vicar, the Rev. J.S. Treglown, much of which is described on the page about the closure of the church school.

1907

Phil Long recalls that his grandparents Charles and Maud Leverett, moved into Glass Bottle Farm around 1907, as confirmed below by the 1911 census.

1911 Census

The 1911 Census recorded that Glass Bottle Farm was occupied by Charles Leverett, his wife Maud, and their daughter Edith (mother of Phil Long).
It is understood that Charles Leverett and his family moved to Laurel farm around 1920.

1939 Register

The 1939 Register recorded that Glass Bottle Farm was occupied by Andrew, Grace and Sidney Willis. The register does not indicate relationships.

1941 Farm survey

There are details of the 1941 Farm Survey of The Pastures here. There is a reference to the fact that the farm had previously been known as “Glass Bottle Farm”.

1943 – 1963

During the approximate years 1943-1963 the following four occupied the house in their retirement:-

Jack (Edward John) George, with the dog, Ellen’s brother,
Harry Jeffery,
Ellen Jeffery, Harry’s wife (née George),
Fanny George, Ellen’s sister.

These four appear in the following extract from Harry & Ellen’s wedding in 1907 (from left to right). The full photo is available here.

With thanks to Amanda Milborne for supplying this photo

All four are now in Deopham churchyard:

Photo: G. Sankey; 8/2023

Location B67

Note: the stonemasons made an error in the year of birth which should read 1881.
Source: Amanda Milbourne.

Photo: P Long; 8/2005

Location B48

Probate register entry for Harry Jeffery:

Recent times

The house was owned by Mr. & Mrs. Marquart; Josef Anton Marquart, who had been born in Winterthur, Zurich, worked for Lotus as a racing car designer. The Motor Sport magazine of January 1994 carried an obituary in which it was reported that:-

Marquart made several applications to find work with racing teams in the early 1960s, when he was working for the Scottish Bus Group in Edinburgh, and when he drew a blank he returned to Winterthur, in his native Switzerland. Team Lotus took him on in the mid 1960s, however, and he worked alongside the late Maurice Philippe before teaming up with Robin Herd and Gordon Coppuck at McLaren. There, he was credited with the successful Can-Am-winning M8A and the less successful M9A 4wd F1 car.

After Lotus, he worked for McLaren as chief designer from 1968, joined Huron in 1971, Modus in 1974 and formed Argo in 1976 achieving success in F3 and sportscars.
Jo Marquart died on November 29^th 1993 in Deopham.
The Marquart initials are carved above the fireplace:

With thanks to Melissa Deighton for supplying this photograph

After the Marquarts, the house was owned and occupied by Hilary Ashenhurst.

The following photograph shows a recent view taken around 2020 of the exterior. Apparently there are still some of the original glass bottles that gave the farm its name behind the rendering.

With thanks to Melissa Deighton for supplying this photograph

Phil Long has marked up the following picture from Google Street View to show where the glass bottles used to be visible; he says that there was an area of about a meter and a half square filled with the bottom of different coloured bottles:

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Date	Change
1/4/25	Probate for Harry Jeffery
24/3/25	1943-63
25/11/24	More on Jo Marquart, Leveretts, J.W. Hart and location of glass bottles
15/11/24	Published