Tinderbox Cottage, Broad Wheel Road

Tinderbox Cottage, 2 Broad Wheel Rd

Photo by Margaret Courtman 2017

Extract from Enclosure map 1820

Image Sale in 1841

Tinderbox Cottage

One of the older listed properties in the village.

The Early records

1763 On the Indenture of No 8 Broad Wheel Road – 2 Broad Wheel Road owned by Gentleman Jackson.
1772 On the Edward Hare map for the Fitzwilliam Estate.
1783 On the Indenture of No 8 Broad Wheel Road – 2 Broad Wheel Road owned by Gentleman Jackson.

The Owners and Tenants from 1820-1921

1809 to 1820 The Enclosure award and map, property Ref 42 – Alexander Broughton. ¹1829 Will of Alexander Broughton – who died in 1830 and bequeathed the cottage and garden to his nephew George Brown (Whittlesea). The sitting tenant was Thomas Wilkinson.
1841 – Stamford Mercury 1st March – Notice of Auction at the Exeter Arms – seller Mr George Brown – tenant Thomas Wilkinson.²1841 – Sold to John Alfred Wyles, plumber and lead worker of Market Place, Market Deeping.

1841 CENSUS – Thomas Wilkinson, tenant (owned by John Alfred Wyles)
1851 CENSUS – Edward Langley, tenant (owned by John Alfred Wyles)
1861 CENSUS – Edward Langley, tenant (owned by John Alfred Wyles)
1871 CENSUS – Maria Langley, tenant (owned by John Alfred Wyles)
1879 Following the decease of John Alfred Wyles, bequeathed to his son William Wyles, Chemist
1881 CENSUS – Henry Crowson, tenant (owned by William Wyles)
1891 CENSUS – Henry Crowson, tenant (owned by William Wyles)
1900 Sold to William Howes (retired Police Sergeant)
1901 CENSUS – Elizabeth Crowson widow of Thomas, tenant (owned by William Howes)
1911 CENSUS – William Howes, owner
1921 CENSUS – William Howes, owner

The Owners over the last 100 years ³

1929 – Sold by Lucy Lake (School Mistress at Helpston School House) daughter of the late William Howes to Mrs Constance Muriel Scott (wife of Reginald Royston Scott, advertising agent).
1939 – Register – Mrs Constance Muriel Scott and her father.
1945 – Sold by Mrs Constance Muriel Scott to Lesley Wallace Terry.
1949 – Sold by Lesley Wallace Terry to Wing Commander Stanley Graham Pritchard of Thorney (based in Germany).
1951 – The garden land west of 2 Broad Wheel Road sold by the Fitzwilliam Estate to Wing Commander Stanley Graham Pritchard.
1953 – Both the garden land and house was sold by Wing Commander Stanley Graham Pritchard to John Henry Greenwood and his wife Constance Edith Greenwood.

2002 – Sold by the sons of the late Constance Edith Greenwood to the present owners.

^{1 Extract from copy of Enclosure map held by Helpston Parish Council}^{2 Newspaper image © The British Library Board. All rights reserved. With thanks to The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk).
3. Deeds held by owner 2 Broad Wheel Road
Census records – Ancestry.co.uk}