List entry for 9 The Croft: 1369367

No. 9 The Croft is the long white house with three dormer windows on the left of this photograph, dating from the seventeenth century. It is attached to a similar house with four dormers to the east (now 11 & 11A), and to the White Hart outbuilding to the west.

This cottage housed the Headington subscription reading room from 1858, and in 1876 was turned into a British Workman club. It was too small, however, to cope with the demand, and the new British Workman opened in Old High Street in 1881.

The 1921 census shows William Webb (69), a carman for the farmer John Wiggins, living here with his wife Ann, their son Cyril (24), their daughter Ethel Evans (28) and her husband Cecil and son, and their daughter Dorothy Coggins (23) and her husband Sidney and son.

William Webb died at 9 The Croft at the age of 69 in May 1925, and his widow Ann Elizabeth Webb remained here until her own death in May 1933. Their daughter Dorothy and her husband Sidney George Coggins continued living in this house. Sidney died in 1955 and his widow Dorothy Coggins continued to live here until at least 1976.