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Glebe Cottage
residents: Phil & Jill Archer [nee Patterson]
Dating back to the 1840’s, Glebe Cottage has been in the Archer family for many decades. Originally owned by Letty Lawson-Hope, Doris Archer [nee Forrest] inherited the cottage from her former employer Letty for her lifetime. While still residing at Brookfield, Doris rented it out to Ned and Mabel Larkin and then to Hugo Barnaby. Doris and Dan retired there in 1970, and in 1973, Doris and Dan Archer purchased the four-acre freehold.
The small two-bedroom, thatched roof house has a walled garden that backs onto St. Stephen’s Church grounds. When Doris died in 1980, the cottage was passed on to Shula Archer [now Hebden-Lloyd, formerly Hebden] with the understanding that Doris’ husband Dan could stay there for his lifetime. When he died in 1986, Shula made her home there with her first husband, solicitor Mark Hebden and conceived their only child Daniel in February of 1994 through IVF. Weeks (if not days) after conception, Mark was killed in a mysterious road accident. Four years after the death of her husband, Shula married local vet Alistair Lloyd after a scandalous affair with the village doctor, Richard Locke.
In 2001, when Phil Archer retired from Brookfield, Shula Hebden-Lloyd sold the house to her parents making way for her to purchase The Stables from her Auntie Christine Barford [nee Archer, formerly Johnson]. Although Jill struggled at first with the reduced size of the kitchen and the lack of an Aga, the gardens surrounding the cottage have provided much joy for the semi-retired couple. Jill is unable to keep her bees there however. They remain at Brookfield along with her hens. |
