Neville House in Tatsfield
In May 1883 James Browning Sperryn writes a letter from Tatsfield. Judging from what he writes it sounds as if he lives there as
members of his family come to stay with him, but it's his son James Neville who is listed as owning and living at Neville house.
James Neville is an overseer in Tatsfield in 1887 and 1888. He's also listed in the 1887 Kelly's directory as living there.
In the 1880s men had votes in the locations where they owned property as well as their primary address, hence he appears
in the 1891 voters' lists for both 37 Medora Rd. and Neville House.
A newspaper report of January 1892 describes the death of Ann Hilyer in Neville house and mentions that she had
lived there for at least 3 months. So it's likely that James Neville Sperryn had sold it, or at least rented it out, by 1891.
Between 1883 and at least 1888 (possibly 1891) James Neville Sperryn owns and sometimes lives at Neville house on Edgar
Rd in Tatsfield (between Biggin Hill and the M25). The name of the house is a big coincidence if that was its name already.
From the alterations that James Browning mentions in his letter, it sounds more like improving an existing property rather than one
built to James Neville's design. Was its name changed to Neville House? We'll probably never know.
The 1893 voters' list for Tatsfield still shows James Neville as the freeholder of Neville House, but all the other
evidence points to him having already sold up.
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