Description: The Cottage (known as Manor Cottage in the Victorian period) stands opposite the Peel Centre on the High Street. The north wing of the house was built in the 16th century, and was added to in 1622. The house once served as a dame's School on Lord Byron's estate. Jarvis and Mary Smedley (pictured) bought The Cottage in 1861, and their daughter later married the local railway station master. In 1939, the Redfern family moved into the cottage, and later, in the 1950s, Roger Redfern made the gruesome discovery of the bone's of a baby's hand beneath the flags of the cellar floor. (Information from R Redfern's 'Dronfield's Remarkable Houses', 2001)