House 4 on c.1727 Grafton Estate Survey
Date	Owner	Occupier	Description	A.R.P.	Rent	Comments
1589	Duke	Henry Plowman			£3 12s 11d	Henry Plowman alias Tompson
1634		Henry Plowman			£3 12s 11d
1650		Richard Plowman	Hall, parlour, kitchen, millhouse or buttery, all floored over, four bays; another house thereto adjoining, two bays, two barns of seven bays, stable, cowhouse of two bays, kilnhouse or malthouse of two bays		£3 12s 11d	with large fold yard, orchard, close of pasture. Late Henry Plowman
1693		William Gardiner			£3 12s 11d	Late Henry Plowman
1725		Henry Plowman	A House	1 1 22 pasture	£1 5s 0d
1727		Hen Plowman		1 1 22
1727		Hen Plowman
Before 1748		Hen Plowman		1 1 22
1740		Thomas James				Pays £47 11 0 for a farm which includes this house
1752		Thos James		1 1 22
Apr 1756		Thomas James
c.1756		Thos James [in different hand, now Rob.t Watson]	A good House 3 Barns Stable Cowhouse & home Close	1 1 22		Tenant at will at £48 6 0 pa
1757		Thos James		1 1 22
c.1760		Thos James
1774		Robert Watson	A House, 3 Barns, Stables etc. Cowhouse & Home Close	1 1 22		RW held part of farm a few years, left by one James the son of an old tenant Thos James. Bargain set to Watson LD1774. He failed & was obliged to leave the farm, though set very low to him. March 25 1776. This farm divide among the other 4 tenants and John Valentine became tenant. Management of affairs got worse, old Valentine resigned farm to his son, John Valentine, LD 1795 but he died Nov 1795. August 1796, let to Benjamin Brittain, to whom JV's widow had given possession.
1776		John Valentine Sen.				Robert Watson resigned the farm
1795		John Valentine Jun.				John Valentine Sen.resigned farm to his son John Valentine who died in 1795
Aug 1796		Benjamin Brittain				Farm let to Benjamin Brittain who dies in same year