Pump Cottage, Coombe Abbey

Description of this historic site

The building known as Pump Cottage, Dove Cottage and the gardeners store dates from the late 18th century and may originally have been used as a brewhouse or laundry. It has undergone extensive alteration and now contains no original features.

Notes about this historic site

1 The building known as Pump Cottage, Dove Cottage and the gardeners store dates from the late 18th century and may originally have been used as a brewhouse or laundry. It has undergone extensive alteration and now contains no original features. It may have been part of the works by Newman and Wise of 1766-7. Its originally purpose seems to be that of a brewhouse and bakehouse. An ancillary use appears to have been as a laundry.

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