Pain’s Farmstead, Church Street

including mill and bakehouse

Pain’s Farmstead is the name we have given to an ancient farmstead, which stood at the junction of Church Street and Cheyney Street. The layout and buildings varied over the years, but generally there was a substantial farm house, a couple of cottages, mill and bakehouse and house for the miller or baker and within the farmyard stood various farm buildings. The total plot was just over half an acre at 2r 24p. For many years the farmstead was owned by the Pain family and descended by marriage to the Duke family.

In 1901 the Executors of George Duke sold off the main house and attached cottage or two as Lot 2 and purchaser was the sitting tenant, his son in law William South. This was subsequently sold and became known as The Old Priory or The Priory. After it burnt down in 1951 the land was absorbed by the South family back into the farmstead. The remainder of the farmyard, mill, bakehouse and mill house on the corner of Church Street and Cheyney Street were sold as Lot 1, again to William South. the South family remained owners until Victor South died suddenly in 1978, after which the whole site, including the Old Priory land was sold for development.

Farmstead and Mill today

1 & 3 Church Street. The mill and bakehouse, the only remaining original buildings, having been converted into two houses.

5, 7, 9, 9a, 11 & 13 Church Street. New build

2 & 2a Cheyney Street. New build

PAGE IN EARLY STAGES OF PREPARATION

Click on any image below to view. Click again to enlarge. Drag to view entire image.