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Bomb wings Anchor House!
During the Second World War a bomb fell close to this Tudor house damaging one of its wings. David Bage tells us, "This was only partially rebuilt under war damage but was restored to its pre-war size by the then owner John Webb in the eighties. Many sources think it was once a coaching inn." However, the ‘coaching inn’ story is doubted by the historian Aymer Vallance, writing in Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 55 - 1942.
Parts of the original building are believed to be 15th and 16th century.
This image is from about 1906, much as it is today after restoration. You can see the shop and Post Office to the far left. The latest owner has renamed this “Old House”.
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