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Walderton, from the parish of Stoughton in West Sussex, is externally a
c17th building with walls of flint & brick. Beneath this is a medieval
timber framed building which is itself a replacement of part of an earlier
building discovered during archaeological excavation of the site. The
different phasing is shown in the exhibit building. The middle room has been
designed to show the transition from a medieval to a c17th dwelling. Note
the contrast between the soot blackened medieval hall & the whitewashed
c17th accommodation.
Evidence for occupation of this house is confusing. In 1614 the ‘house,
garden & orchard containing by estimation ½ an acre’ were in the occupation
of John Catchlove, a husbandman who had an estate valued at a modest £28 14s
when he died in 1634. The house as it was rebuilt seems too large for a man
of this status (for whom a cottage like Poplar would have been more
typical). Moreover, his probate inventory suggests that he was living in a
two roomed house. It is possible that he was still living in the medieval
hall & that the flint & brick alterations were not done until c.1646 when
William Catchlove mortgaged the property for £20 (i.e. raised a secure
loan).
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