The court rolls of the manor of Glynde record that, in 1657, Richard Pupp, one of the customary tenants of the manor, encroached upon the manorial wasteOpen, uncultivated and unoccupied common land.
Typically road verges, greens, etc. and enclosed about two rods to enlarge a certain garden plot. He was given until the next Michaelmas [29 September] to make the plot good or pay a fine of six shillings. This entry possibly means that Richard Pupp either had enlarged the garden of the house already on the site or had recently built a house (now the Thatched Cottage) on the piece of land he had encroached on. Unfortunately, there are no surviving court rolls for the manor of Glynde between 1575 and 1651 which might give us more clues.

The Pupp family had certainly lived in Glynde for at least two generations before Richard encroached on the manorial wasteOpen, uncultivated and unoccupied common land.
Typically road verges, greens, etc. on the south side of the road between Glynde and Lewes, via Ranscombe.

Margery Pupp, widow, had been buried at Glynde 17 May 1622. She may have been the mother of Richard Pupp the elder who married Joan Parkes at Glynde church 11 May 1623. Richard and Joan had at least three children baptised in Glynde between 1624 and 1628: Elizabeth, John and Richard. Elizabeth died in childhood but John may have been the John Pupp buried at Glynde in 1653, a servant of Colonel Harbert Morley, owner of Glynde Place and leader of the parliamentary forces in Sussex in the Civil War. Richard the elder died in 1629 but his widow Joan lived until 1648.

Richard the younger was, presumably, the man who appeared in the entry in the court roll in 1657. Richard had married Ann Stafford at Glynde, 9 November 1654 but Ann died in December 1655, a month after the death of their first child, also Ann. Richard then married Ann Lawrence at Lewes St John sub Castro in 1656 and they appear to have had just one son, John, who died as a young child.

Richard Pupp the younger had died by 1688 although we do not know if he was buried in Glynde as there is a gap in the parish registers. On his death his property was described as one tenementRented dwelling
or land or cottage with garden adjoining, on the west side of Glynde village. Richard was succeeded by his widow Ann but a John Parkes also held an interest in the property. It seems probable that this John Parkes was a relation of Joan Parkes who had married Richard Pupp the elder in 1623. This would suggest that while Richard Pupp the younger was described as the owner the property had in fact passed down through the female line, as was the custom of the manor of Glynde.

Ann sold the property to John Fremantle and his wife Joan in 1691 when the plot was occupied by John Waterer. Waterer was still the tenant in 1695, the year the Freemantles sold the ‘tenementRented dwelling
or land or cottage with garden adjoining at the west part of Glynde Street, late Pupp’ to Joseph Denham, weaver, and his wife Mary.

After Joseph Denham died Mary, his widow, sold the property to William Prodger in 1700. After William’s death in 1719 his son Stephen, born in Glynde in 1700, inherited. The same year Stephen, by then a tailor of East Blatchington, sold to Thomas Tuppenny. Thomas Tuppenny died in 1727 and his wife Ann in 1744. Their sons Edward and Thomas sold it to John Barnden who, in 1770, sold to Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, lord of the manor of Glynde and owner of the Glynde Estate, for £50. It has remained the property of the estate ever since.