HISTORY OF CHAPEL COTTAGE, STUTTON, YORKSHIRE
2004The Cottage Today
The cottage today comprises elements from its earliest history to the present day. It has been updated as the requirements upon it have changed or as things come to the end of their useful lives. Sometimes this has happened in a radical way such as the major extension in 1989 or the closure of the Chapel in 1905 but mostly it will have been a slow evolving process with things been made to last as long as possible.
Some features from the early times have miraculously survived: a disused brick bread oven in the lounge which must have been redundant decades ago : a Victorian cast iron support post used during the construction of the cottage extension and from Stutton Malt Kiln and also an early wooden front door probably dating from Chapel times.
During the twenty century it saw major improvements in the standard of living of the occupants. Electricity and running water probably arrived in the first half of the century, connection to the sewage system in the late 1950s, an inside toilet in the 1960s, telephone in the 1970s and mains gas in the 1980s.
As it moves forward into the twenty-first century it is now networked into the world through the power of broadband Internet and satellite television, a far cry from 170 years ago when a small band of devoted local Christians prayed and sang here in the upstairs room.
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