Furnished as it would have been in the late 19th century.
Whittaker's Cottages were built in the mid 1860s. They were rented to agricultural labourers and named after Richard Whittaker, an elderly agricultural labourer who lived on the edge of the common at Ashtead, near Leatherhead in Surrey. In 1849 he sold his one-acre paddock to a railway company building a line between London and Portsmouth, and these cottages were built right beside the line on land which the company did not use. Each cottage is small, just twelve feet wide and twenty feet long, with two rooms on each floor. One of the cottages has been left unfinished inside, to show the exposed timber-framed structure. The other has been furnished as in the late 19th century. They were dismantled in 1987 and reconstructed at Singleton in 1997.