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Holiday cottages

• Message 1. 

  Posted by crumblebucket (U4123300) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  I understood that Kate and Alice both owned cottages on the farm that were let out to holidaymakers. Alice and Chris now live in hers so would they not need to apply for change of use, or did they always have full residential permission on them? Is Kate's cottage still let as there is never any mention of visitors any more?
  
  Also, how many holiday cottages did Brookfield have? Do Ed and Emma live in one now? If so, same question re permission.
  
  Round here (deepest Devon) it is very difficult to get change of use to residential on a holiday cottage.
  
  Thanks Tayler (or posters in the know!)

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  Posted by Spartacus (U38364) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  I'm pretty sure they were originally "full residential", as they were workers' cottages. (i.e. Not built for use as "holiday cottages"...)

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  Posted by Reggie Trentham (U2746099) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  Apart from the farmhouse and the bungalow, where Ruth and David used to live, and Bert and Freda now live Brookfield has one cottage, Rickyard. It's where Ed and Emma now live, iirc they moved in on a temporary basis for the winter and have never left.
  
  It's the one Jill used to let as a holiday cottage. Presumably it was once a farm workers' residence but I can't ever remeber it being mentioned as such or even at all before it became a holiday let.
  
  I think there was another cottage at one time but David sold it to raise cash and it partly caused the dispute with Elizabeth over the inheritance.

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  Posted by Leaping Badger (U3587940) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  I think there was another cottage at one time but David sold it to raise cash and it partly caused the dispute with Elizabeth over the inheritance.  There was Woodbine, and the bungalow, which Bert and Freda live in now.
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  Posted by Sallyruth (U14589711) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  Mike and Betty lived in Rickyard cottage, when they moved to Ambridge. Tony lived there once as well. The squatters lived there as well.
  
  I think it was a farm building, converted to the cottage,
  
  Jill used to let Rickyard as a holiday let, and then Woodbine, when Bert and Freda moved out. Then Ruth tried to sell it to her mum(too sensible, didn't) but Auntie Cardboard got it in the end.

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  Posted by Tayler Cresswell - Host (U14232848) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  
  Thanks all for the answers -
  
  From the archivist - both cottages (Alice/Chris's and Ed/Emma's) are ex farm worker's cottages. Rickyard is the only cottage at Brookfield.
  
  Tayler
  

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  Posted by Sallyruth (U14589711) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  
  Rickyard Cottage gets its name from its close proximity to Brookfield’s rick yard that is basically steps away. Its modest beginning came as farmhand accommodation and much later blossomed into trendy holiday farm lettings. Original occupiers of Rickyard were farmhand Simon and Bess Cooper and then Ned and Mabel Larkin. Tony Archer [Phil Archer’s cousin] took residency during the early 70’s until he met Pat Lewis from Wales. They married in 1974 and soon Rickyard reverted back to being a home for Brookfield workers.
  
  After squatters were run off in 1993, Jill Archer [nee Patterson] opened Rickyard to a series of holiday guests looking for a getaway on a true English farm in the countryside. However, Phil’s sudden penchant for gourmet cooking put an end to that. Guests complained they were never served hotpots, ploughman’s or fry ups for their meals.
  
  In 2004, Brookfield saw the return of Rickyard to a farmhand in the form of Sam Batton, a contract dairy herdsman.
  
  
  From Saddicts
  
  
  And "Alice's cottage" was never an agricultural cottage. Jenny used the barn that she had used with Jill as The Two Jays studio, to create HER three holiday cottages.
  
  
  Which Brian was arrogantly going to leave to Kate, Alice and Ruairi in his will in 2008.
  
  And then we hear he had already given them (while still allowing Jenny to do all the work of letting them as holiday cottages!) to Alice and Kate the year before he had the on air conversation about leaving them in "his" will.

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  Posted by crumblebucket (U4123300) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  Thank you all for your replies
  

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