Oakhurst Cottage is a tiny 16th or 17th-century cottage in Hambledon, Surrey, in the United Kingdom. It is a Grade II listed building. [1]
The cottage was given to the National Trust in 1954, and occupied until 1983. It has been restored to illustrate the dwelling of a labourer in the Victorian era.
The building may have originally been a barn. [2] The cottage as it exists now was built in the 16th or 17th century. It was occupied until the 1980s, [3] and has since been restored and furnished to illustrate an example of a labourer's cottage. [4]
The cottage was given to the National Trust in 1954 by the Allfrey sisters but was lived in by their tenants Elsie and Ted Jeffrey until Ted's death in 1983. [5] Its garden is filled with plants that were popular during the Victorian era. [6] Such is its size that Oakhurst Cottage can only be viewed by appointment, and by groups of no more than six people at a time. [4]
The two-storey building has a timber frame and a tiled roof. The infill between the timbers is colourwashed brick. [1] There is a chimney to one side and a wing at the back. [1] In the quarry-tiled kitchen is a large brick hearth beneath an oak beam, [2] [7] with examples of china and household implements which may have been used in a similar house. [8] The bedrooms are accessed by a narrow staircase into the attic. These have two gabled dormer windows with some old glass in diamond-pane leading. [9]
In the garden is an outhouse which housed the toilet, [2] and a small barn with a collection of garden and workmen's tools. [10]
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