Landbeach High Street: an historic house

Image: © John Sutton Taken: 1 May 2020

This Grade II house has late-mediaeval and 16th-century elements. According to the village website, "local legend is that two elderly ladies running away from London during the Great Plague of 1665-6 settled in this house, but fell sick and died, passing the Plague on to the Rector, William Rawley, and his family, the only people to go near them. It is certainly true that the Rector's son, and probably his wife and servants, died in the plague year, and the grieving Rector (his handwriting in the parish registers becomes shakier and shakier) died a year later. There is no trace of the two elderly ladies in the records. For many years until 1943 this was the Post Office. A small matchboarded lean-to, on the northern end next to the street, housed the first public telephone."

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