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Dovetail House

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This is the most recent property to be constructed in Hampsthwaite and stands on land which in 1919 formed part of agricultural land sold that year to Frederick McCulloch Jowitt of Hollins Hall. Mr Jowitt was a Wool merchant and Top maker and a substantial landowner, living in what was until recent years the most notable residence in Hampsthwaite. The land he acquired appears to have been farmed in conjunction with his property at nearby Hollins Farm. Mr Jowitt died in 1921 and his estate passed to his widow Helen Dorothea who held it until her own demise in 1952. On the 18th May 1956 her executors sold Hollins Farm to George Ripley Pinkney who was in fact already in possession as its tenant farmer. The purchase price for the farmhouse with over 61 acres of land and further land at Killinghall was £3000!

In recent years the site has been occupied as a builder’s storage yard

Here are views of the undeveloped site in December 2009 . . .

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By March 2009 work on the construction of the new house had begun and within two weeks the structure of the new building was already rising from the ground . . .
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This is how the site appeared on the 11th April . . .
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. . . and by the 25th April the appearance of the new house could already be envisaged . . .
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By mid-May progress on the exterior structure was well advanced . . .
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. . . and in mid-June it appeared thus.
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Dovetail House
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