
The cottage in the 1930s when Tom Lake the milkman there.
![Alf Pearce[L] and Fred Handscombe [R]repairing the cottage.](https://i0.wp.com/pirtonhistory.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/28sr-A2/1489645638.jpg?resize=640%2C448)
Alf Pearce[L] and Fred Handscombe [R]repairing the cottage. The work revealed old beams which had been plastered over in earlier years.

The house was divided into 2 cottages.

The fence divided the garden of the cottages.

The house was divided from the bakery and farmyard by a wall.

The house was extended and modernised in the 1970s by the Grooms.