Poplar Cottage 17th Century Smoke Bay House

Poplar Cottage from Washington, Sussex

This building was probably the home of a landless labourer from the mid 17th century. A timber framed cottage, two rooms on each floor, with an end smoke bay, an early form of chimney.

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	Rebuilt in 1999; click here to see the construction progress in words and pictures, from erection of the timber frame to completion.
	Re-Building Poplar Cottage, article in house magazine.
	Poplar Cottage – a wasteland cottage from Washington, West Sussex. Historical research, article in House Magazine describing common land, cottages and the social status of their inhabitants.

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