Mystery of the demolished cottage baffles village: Neighbours tell how gang of ‘rough’ workers tore down 300-year-old thatched cottage without planning permission
The villagers were amazed by the identity of a local landlord who employed a ‘rude’ gang to destroy a beloved 300 -year -old hut.
The neighbors first said that the workers believed that they had come to revive the roof of the historical property and that they were shocked when a JCB excavator arrived.
Test Valley District Council, two -bedroom house was not aware of the plans to demolish and now they have started an investigation for destruction, he said.
The natives in the fellow countrymen near Southampton in Hampshire said that the congregations of the 17th century property were accepted as ‘hallmark’ and even on the front cover of a local history book.
The inhabitants confessed that some of them felt robbed from a part of their local history, and some of them were shocked by destruction, even they wanted to ‘lock’.
Wychwood Cottage’s 39 -year -old Alex Huckle, who once lived where he was standing, said that a ‘rough’ gang came to start to work, but he did not expect anything as hard as a destruction and added that there was no sign to warn the inhabitants.
He said: ‘They looked quite rough, there was nothing or anything else.
“ There was a damper truck. We thought they had revived it, put plastic sheets, but frankly they were lowering her instrument. ‘
The villagers were amazed by the identity of a local landlord who employed a ‘rude’ gang to destroy a beloved 300 -year -old hut.
Neighbors, the first believed workers came to hit the roof of the historical property again and shocked when a JCB diger arrives, and when the house goes within two days
The inhabitants said that some of those responsible for the ‘locking’ of those who were responsible after a peeled feeling from a part of their local history were shocked by the destruction.
Local added village has previously been listed in the summer house but failed.
Ms. Huckle told Mailonline: ‘I know we’re trying to list it in February. I was told that it was changed a few years ago. I don’t know who owns it. ‘
Elderly Nursling residents were particularly angry with the decision to destroy such a beloved hut.
90 -year -old James Rooney, responsible for the ‘disgusting’ actions’ should be ‘locked’ he said.
Retired builder said: ‘disgusting, whoever needs to be locked.
“ We heard that they were doing business, but we did not know that they would download it.
“ One of the last things I heard, the old lady living there, wrote to the council for leaving.
‘All I know was a beautiful old hut.’
A inhabitants, a ‘rough’ man gang came to start work, but not expecting anything as hard as destruction and there was no sign to warn the inhabitants, he said.
The cottage was sold in April with planning permission and expected something to be built next to the historical property (the impression of the artist)
Cottage, which was previously belonging to an Estates company in connection with a philanthropist, said the Barker Mill Foundation ‘not to be sold to collapse’ (the impression of the artist)
39 -year -old Jess Craig reiterated Ms. Huckle’s comments about the destruction team and said they are definitely not a ‘corporate company’.
The full -time mother said that the destruction of the beautiful property was ‘quite fast’ and the workers who resembled tree surgeons working at home noticed only two days of workers.
He said: ‘It was a nice cottage, he was there for a minute and he went the next.
At some point, I saw what looks like tree surgeons and pier around the covering around it and then went.
‘It was about two days, it certainly didn’t seem like a company.’
The 71 -year -old Lawrence Warfield, who has been living in the village of Hampshire for twenty years, said he could not believe his eyes when a JCB digger moved and started to break down the property.
42 -year -old registered nurse Karen Williams, everyone in the region completely blue in the destruction of the ‘really sad’ he said.
“I’m really sorry and shocked that it was destroyed,” he said.
“ `I looked at the planning portal and because I could only see for the adjacent land, they did a legacy for the protection of the building.
‘Everyone here is really sad. I knew it was on sale last year, it came with a planning permission for adjacent land.
“ I heard that they were destroyed, I did not notice what was going on until I saw it on the Facebook page.
‘Everyone was upset, a part of our history was taken, there is not much of the old village.
The cottage belonged to an Estates company, which was previously a philanthropic organization, which was a philanthropist, but confirmed that it was sold roughly for two centuries after it had roughly had it.
An anonymous source told Mailonline that the cottages were sold with planning permission in April and they expect something to be built next to the historical property.
They said that they did not sell their collapse and to hear that they were completely destroyed.
The latest planning application for the cottage was presented to the council in 2022, trying to build a new house on the land next to the hut.
This application was approved by the test Valley, but a work has not yet started in separate housing.
Phil Bundy, a member of the Planning portfolio, said, ‘I noticed that Wychwood Cottage was destroyed at the weekend on Sunday evening.
‘Test Valley District Council has not been informed about this study in advance.
‘Although there is no building listed in the summer, TVBC is currently investigating the issue.
‘This includes determining whether the owners are in contact with them to see if the owners follow the correct planning procedures and to understand why they are destroyed.’
In a list on the website of real estate agent Giles Wheeler, the cottage is defined as a generous garden of 0.15 acres, and a place close to the center of the Hamshable Village in one and a half miles of the M27 highway.
The facility, which was sold earlier this year, was listed with a price of more than £ 400,000, and as a whole, the pictures on the website show a bright and tidy interior with a gallery cuisine, modern shower room and top, wood panel bedrooms.
There was a large open plan living space with wooden beams on the ceiling and settled cabinets on the lower floor, and on the dirty white walls, except for some small superficial traces, the house appeared in good condition
