Rutland: Teddy’s Cottage – Market Overton! (27.10.2025)

‘Immediately opposite Coumb Cottage is a pair of brick-built cottages [7].
In 1901 the cottage to the right was occupied by Suzannah Tomlin, 65, a
widow and shoe dealer. George Osborne, 61, a butcher’s assistant lived
the other cottage.’

The above is extracted from the linked (historical) articled presented at the top of this article. I believe this information refers to the row of cottages – one of which – we are currently staying within for five-days. This is our current Research Headquarters for this visit (25.10.2025-30.10.2025) – where we will be travelling to and from Duddington (and the surrounding areas). In the information pack provided in the property – it states the house dates from the 17th century (1600s). Below is a photograph of a row of cottages further down the road – together with a description of the properties:

‘In the row of terraced cottages opposite (on the west side of Main Street)
the first, at the south end [9], was a grocer’s shop and post office in 1901,
run by Ann Measures, spinster, and Ruby Taylor, her assistant. In 1904
there were two deliveries and collections of mail every day. Next to it,
the cottage with a canopy above the door was home to Ernest Whittle,
coal agent, his wife and four children. In 1911 Ernest was recorded as an
ironstone worker, but his cottage was now a butcher’s shop run by John
William Brown. The last cottage in this row [10], at the north end, was
once the saddlery. In 1901 it was run by Harriet Smith, her niece Grace
and a servant. By 1911 the business had been taken over by Arthur Gibson
who lived here with his wife Mary and young son Leonard.’

It possesses two floor, two bedrooms, a downstairs living-room, dining-room, kitchen, and foyer. Much of the downstairs flooring is flagstone – with the floor levels from one room to the next being uneven (on different levels). Apparently, this has something to do with the age of the building. Furthermore, the door-frames are quite low – at least for myself (I am 6’2″). I think this is an old photograph of the row of cottage I am writing about: