Addington, Buckinghamshire
As I approached the front gate of the church, a woman came running out from the rectory. She was the owner. She asked if I had left the photos in the mailbox. We talked for a few minutes until she realized she had better get back to her two year old who was playing outside. Then she invited me in for coffee and said that she would show me the inside of the house.
I just wanted to scream. I'd get to walk around in the house that my ancestor lived in for 33 years? And who knows how many of the family visited and even stayed there. They walked in that yard, and on those floorboards. Now I would be too. I couldn't believe my good fortune. Neither could she, at being able to live in this house.
Heading in the driveway to the rectory. It appears to be a staddle stone on the left.
The whole house, inside and out, is being renovated. Hopefully the new owners will take it back to the brick on the exterior walls.
Facing away from somewhere around the front door you can see the church tower next door. It seems fitting that my relatives are buried between the two buildings.
Two photos of my great-aunt Kate's first born,
'Roy' Baker (born Dec. 1912) in the rectory yard. In the first, he is shown presumably with
Christiana Stevens, Mackwood's second wife. It would appear that my great-aunt Kate Stevens and her brother Edward Stevens stayed in this house around the times they were married.
I don't want to post a lot of photos of someone's home especially while it's under renovation so I'll just show inside the front door. I sat in the kitchen with the owner, became quick pals with her little boy, and had a most enjoyable visit.
The above photos are from the internet when this house was on the market. It had been listed at £1,650,000; I suspect it sold for closer to £1,300,000.
The back yard from a window - wheatfield in the distance of the top photo.
This seems an odd placement for a hedge. I wonder when it was planted and if the new owners will take it out.
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