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The Carriage House
History
'The Carriage House' was built - as two coach houses
- sometime between 1893 and 1899.
This was toward the end of Queen Victoria's long reign and at the time
the mews was unnamed and ran down, from what was then called Spital Road,
towards orchards and allotments.
The coach houses would have been built to provide stabling and a place
for the carriages belonging to the big houses facing Osborne Road. The
land belonged to the Queen and we have not yet been able to discover why
she had the houses built but we surmise that they were perhaps intended
for courtiers or some of the more important employees at the castle.
In 1955 the present Queen, Elizabeth ll, sold both coach
houses and the land now forming the garden to Doris Evelyn Holder for
the princely sum of £600. Doris Holder was already living in the property
at that time and may herself have been employed by the castle.
Elderly neighbours have told us that they remember horses being stabled
at the premises but they are not sure when this ceased. The property has
changed hands a number of times since then and various alterations have
been made over the years.
We purchased the property in 2000, when it had become in urgent need of
repair, and have tried to bring it sympathetically up to 21st Century
standards.
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