Description

1.
5272 HOTHFIELD THE STREET
No 5 (High House)
TQ 94 SE 15/6 14.2.67.
II
2.
C18. Two storeys and attics red brick. Tiled roof with moulded wooden eaves
cornice. Three casements. Along the eaves cornice has been painted the
following inscription:-

"Dr Coetlogon's Genuine True and Original Tincture and other Medicines
by the King's Patents. All sorts of Grocery, Drapery and Haberdashers.
Goods Optical, Philosophical and Mathematical Instruments of a New
Construction Spectacles of a New Invention. Ale Brown Amber Malts and
Hops Wholesale and Retale (sic) 1762".

Doorway up 5 steps with 6 panel door and flat hood over similarly inscribed:-

"Drugs, Oyls, Glass and Earthen Wares 1762".

Dr Coetlogon was a Huguenot who sold the rights in his tincture to a Mr
Haffenden of Bethersden who sold it as "Haffenden's Tincture" under which
name it was well known in the late C18.

Listing NGR: TQ9693644794

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26606360

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)