This house appears on the 1717 estate map described as ‘The Vicarage’ and it may have been built at a much earlier date. It remained as the vicarage until 1759 when Richard Trevor purchased a house from John Harries that served as the parish vicarage from 1759 until the 1970s and is now named Hampden House.

The last vicar to have lived in Old Vicarage Cottages was Thomas Davies. After he moved to the new vicarage the original vicarage was sold and by 1838 it was divided into two cottages and owned by George and Thomas Ellman and occupied by Ferdinando Taylor and Thomas Cosham. A third cottage was added as an extension to the house, possibly in the 1840s.

In 1915 Nan Lord, who was a student at the Ragged Lands College of Lady Gardeners lodged at one of these cottages. By the 1920s the three cottages were owned by Ernest Hoather and then by his widow Ella Hoather (neé Lusted). When Mrs Hoather died in about 1975 the houses were sold to the Glynde estate. However, the estate then sold number 3 in 1977 to Benjamin Bazley and his wife Joan of North Waltham, Hampshire, for £6,250.