The Uplands
To learn more details about the history and earlier owners of The Uplands or Tithe Farm, go to Tithe Farm aka Uplands aka Hill House. This house is not to be confused with Stowupland Hall or Uplands House in Saxham Street. The Uplands used to be known as Hill House or Tithe Farm and once was a very grand home. It has sadly fallen on hard times but is undergoing restoration.
Prior to the 1930s the area of the Uplands was in Stowupland, it is now in Stowmarket.
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A deed of 25 March, 1903 describes the house as “Uplands or Hill House”.
In 1876 Frederick Nesfield Cookson sold the property to Alexander Clutterbuck brewer of Stowmarket whose brewery was at the old waterworks site in Station Road he also owned The Retreat.
In the deed of 1863 the house is called The Hill House for the first time although the farm is still called Tithe Farm.
In 1862 following the death of C. R. Freeman the property was auctioned off. {July 1862}
The house said then to be in occupation of a Mr. Wm. Matthew stood in 1 a 0r 39p of garden and orchard at an annual rent of £30.
The land of 30 a 3r 10p was farmed by Thomas Cuthbert, at an annual rent of £63.00.
The estate was tithe free and free of land tax.
In 1828 Tithe Farm was put up for auction. It was being sold by Robert Boby and was bought by Charles Rayner Freeman (see Stowupland Hall).
The will of C.R. Freeman made in 1849 left all his property in Stowupland to his children.
John Boby bought the farm and in his will of 1815 he bequeaths it to his son Robert Boby named as “Tithe Farm” and was then in the occupation of John Boby’s widowed daughter Elizabeth Posford.
In Frederick Woolaston’s will of 1794 the farm is said to be of 30 acres and to be then leased to and in the occupation of John Boby.
In 1765 the tithes of Stowmarket [including Stowupland] were sold by William Lynch to Frederick Woolaston of Finborough Hall, Great Finborough, also “the farm of the said Wm. Lynch … lying & being in Stowupland”.
A court book entry {edited} is as follows –
In a manor court William Lynch by his attorney desired to be admitted tenent to all copyhold lands and tenements late of Edward Lynch his father deceased devised to him, that is to say To One Close with a barn and tenement there upon built next Farris Hill on the part of the North containing by estimation four acres more or less. And also to one other Close of land containing with its appurtenances next Perry Lane in Thorney which premises the said Edward Lynch had and took up to him his heirs and assigns at a court holden for the said manor 9th May 1729 on the Surrender of William Mensket. To which the said William Lynch by his attorney Lord of this manor was admitted. But his fealty is respited.
NL adds an explanation – it seems William Lynch as Lord of the Manor was granting himself permission to be admitted to the premises. Perry Lane was the lane besides The Uplands. So this certainly seems to be Tithe Farm although the acreages don’t seem to tally, in the 1839 tithe apportionment field boundaries may have changed.
In a Thorney Hall Rental of 1763 there is the entry Lynch, William Esqr. for Lands in the Occupation of James Cutting 0:6:6
William Mensket may be Musket and people of that name appear in Stowupland at this time, occupying land adjacent to what would be Stowupland Hall.
