Manor Farm
Cottrell Corbet is believed to have been responsible for building the farm house at Manor Farm, Cow Honeybourne. He was certainly living in the area from about 1788.
Family lore has it that the date 1831 is engraved on the guttering and that there is a board above the door inscribed "Fools build houses for wise men to live in, thus runs the ancient proverb. This house was built by Cotterell and now belongs to Robert".
After Cotterell's death, the house was bought by his kinsman Robert Fletcher. The next resident was Robert's son Richard Fletcher. After Richard's death in 1869 the farm appears to have come to George Cornelius Sheaf, son of Richard's sister Ann.
The Manor House was listed with Historic England in July 1959. It is described as being "Mid-C18 with some late C20 alterations. Brick with stone dressings and tile roof. Gable-end stacks. Three storeys with stone parapet and moulded cornice, stone quoins. Three windows. C20 top-hung casements under stone wedge lintels. Second floor also has C20 casements. Ground floor has two 16-pane sashes. The central entrance has a stone porch with Doric columns, the entrance has a fanlight and panelled door".
Live In Workers
- Elizabeth Taylor (1841)
- George Dison (1841)
- Ann Davis (1851)
- William White (1851)
- Selena Mander (1851 & 1861)
- Emma Field (1861)
- Hannah Matthew (1861)
- Mary Reeves - servant (1871)
- Sarah Bunker (1881)
- Emma Roberts - nurse domestic (1881)
- Sarah Ann (Rose) Stow - domestic servant nurse (1891)
- Gertrude Lilian Eliza Gardner - general domestic servant (1891)
- Annie Coombes - general domestic servant (1901)
- Annie Phillips - domestic servant nurse (1901)
