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Following a tip off from a Pupil from a local village School who had seen our poster for 'open studios', I found this Hut now used as a Chicken Coup. After speaking to the owner, it transpired that the original Chicken Shed had rotted away and the Farmer had this Hut sitting in the corner of one of his fields. The Lamb rack was stripped out and access put in for the Cosy Chickens.
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| A Hampshire Hut in Norfolk |
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This Hut has been restored by the Weeting History Group and a good job they have made of it. The Hut was used on the Weeting Hall Estate and is believed to have been manufactured around 1900 by Watson & Haig of Andover, Hants. After being used by a number of Shepherds it was used for Storage. Pat Childerhouse who farms land that was once part of the Estate, gifted the Hut to the Weeting History group in 2005.
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| Believed to be another Mallons Hut on an Estate south of Swaffham |
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This hut sits on an Estate South of Swaffham. It looks like another Mallons hut. It has a panelled double skin interior with an integral medicine cabinet in the rear wall. The hut has its Lamb rack and was occupied by a Barn Owl who came out, as I went in!
This hut and the one above came from adjacent Estates, one can only assume that good Victorian rail links into Brandon made it cost effective for Weeting Hall to bring a hut from Hampshire, rather than buy one from Hut makers Mallons of Swaffam,who were only a days travel away by Horse. Or maybe cost wasn't the issue?
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This narrow hut sat in a Paddock in Topcroft near Bungay. The owner of the land saw our web site and contacted us because of a concern that the Horses could hurt themselves on the structure. Going through our list of ‘would be Huttists’; she was re-homed to a Garden in central Norfolk and will be restored. The front top axle remains fixed to the hut with the metal turntable plate, but the rear and wheels have long since gone. She is covered in Black Tar, a traditional Norfolk wood preservative.
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