10 Station Road

A house standing on half of an ancient enclosure, which was part of a farm and land acquired by St John’s College, Cambridge in 1517 and 1527. The College sold the estate in Steeple Morden in 1956.

The ancient enclosure is shown on the Enclosure Map 1808-1817 below and is the square plot south of the track into the fields and area marked Gardens. On the Tithe Map 1839 it is the small plot west of the road; number 23.

There was an old thatched cottage on this plot in the past and the resident “Donkey” Hammond came out one morning to go to work and found that the fierce storm overnight had toppled a tree and it had fallen directly on the cottage. He merely glanced at this state of affairs, picked up his bike and cycled off to work.

At some point the plot was acquired by the Jarman family and in December 1976 Gladys Agnes Jarman of Highfield, 67 Station Road was granted outline planning permission for erection of two dwellings.

This northern half of the plot was sold on 26 May 1977 by Gladys Agnes Jarman to Richard Arthur and Wendy Ann Gilbert, who on 14 September 1987 added to it by acquiring a plot of farm land from the field at the rear from E W Pepper Ltd. The plot acquired extends behind No 12 Station Road.

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Details of the plots as numbered on the Tithe Map 1839 below