Siding Cottage, Sidings Lane
Present-day address: Siding Cottage, Sidings Lane, Aldington
A detached cottage built in the 1850s, formerly a toll gate. With the coming of the railway in 1853, a bridge was needed and it became necessary to bank the road. The banking was taken right up to the house so that the ground floor was completely obscured on the west side.
Photographer: Gill Stewart, May 2021; © The Badsey Society
Update March 2024: In 2023, the cottage was sold at auction, together with a 7-acre field. The house had been empty for several years and was in a poor state. Soon after the sale, the house burnt down. There is now a planning application for a permanent caravan site.
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Links
- See who lived here at the time of the 1861 census (1)
- See who lived here at the time of the 1871 census (1)
- See who lived here at the time of the 1881 census (1)
- See who lived here at the time of the 1891 census (1)
- See who lived here at the time of the 1901 census (1)
- See who lived here at the time of the 1911 census (1)
- See who lived here at the time of the 1921 census (1)
- See who lived here at the time of the 1939 register (1)
- Details of this property appear in the Land Valuation Survey 1910-1915 (1)