The land and an earlier house were owned by Henry Bellamy in 1584.
The Quilter family owned the land from 1736 to 1909; it consisted of 23 acres in 1778.
A Major Charles Hemery appears to have lived in the house in or around 1881.

The writer Frances Trollope, mother of novelist Anthony Trollope, rented a house on Hadley Common from January 1836 until the early summer of 1838, possibly Gladsmuir, shortly after the death of her husband and one of her sons.
According to Robert Bradford's biography of Martin Amis, Jane Howard discovered the Trollope connection from the house's papers and maintained that Frances Trollope had purchased it, although a purchase seems unlikely given the Trollope family's finances.
Frances Trollope and four of her children moved to Hadley Common from Belgium, where they had fled to escape debtors' prison in England.
When Trollope's husband (the debtor) died, the threat of prison receded.
Her daughter Emily had tuberculosis, and her doctor advised that winter in England would benefit her.

Trollope described the property as "her pretty cottage" and a "pleasant house with a good garden on the common at Hadley, near Barnet".
R. H. Super writes that Trollope invited eight guests to stay with her one Christmas, in addition to her family, so referring to it as a cottage was somewhat misleading.
The move did not, in the end, help Emily, who died in February 1836.
She was buried in the nearby churchyard at the Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Anthony Trollope later placed one of his characters in The Bertrams (1859) in a dull country house in Hadley.
The land and an earlier house were owned by Henry Bellamy in 1584. The Quilter family owned the land from 1736 to 1909; it consisted of 23 acres in 1778. A Major Charles Hemery appears to have lived in the house in or around 1881.
The writer Frances Trollope, mother of novelist Anthony Trollope, rented a house on Hadley Common from January 1836 until the early summer of 1838, possibly Gladsmuir, shortly after the death of her husband and one of her sons. According to Robert Bradford's biography of Martin Amis, Jane Howard discovered the Trollope connection from the house's papers and maintained that Frances Trollope had purchased it, although a purchase seems unlikely given the Trollope family's finances. Frances Trollope and four of her children moved to Hadley Common from Belgium, where they had fled to escape debtors' prison in England. When Trollope's husband (the debtor) died, the threat of prison receded. Her daughter Emily had tuberculosis, and her doctor advised that winter in England would benefit her.
Trollope described the property as "her pretty cottage" and a "pleasant house with a good garden on the common at Hadley, near Barnet". R. H. Super writes that Trollope invited eight guests to stay with her one Christmas, in addition to her family, so referring to it as a cottage was somewhat misleading. The move did not, in the end, help Emily, who died in February 1836. She was buried in the nearby churchyard at the Church of St Mary the Virgin. Anthony Trollope later placed one of his characters in The Bertrams (1859) in a dull country house in Hadley.
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