In 1831 John Rodd Griffiths bought a house in the High Street that had been built c.1740 for Thomas Cotterell. He enlarged it into a significant property and later his son William Higford Griffiths, made further alterations.
The story of the property and the Griffiths family has been researched using documents, photographs and building deeds that came from Miss Josephine Griffiths’ estate.