Apple Tree Cottage is a timber framed smoke-bay house that was built in 1591. The records of the manor of Farnham reveal that its first owner was Henry Wheeler who owned the house for nearly forty years. It remained in the same family until 1785 when William Wheeler fell upon hard times and sold the house to a builder. He divided it into two cottages and built a terrace of low-grade cottages in the back garden. Throughout the nineteenth century these were a part of the nearby farm and were the homes of agricultural workers. In 1939, the property was sold, the cottages in the garden were demolished and Apple Tree Cottage made one home once more.
The oldest part of the Sir Roger Tichborne, the pub at Alfold Bars, West Sussex, is a wing of a once much larger medieval house that was demolished during the late sixteenth century. The house has changed considerably since that time and it assumed its present appearance in the early nineteenth century when it was enlarged to accommodate the growing family of Robert Strudwick. He was a wheelwright and the property, whose ancient name was Hipp and Waters, had been the heart of a wheel-making business since at least 1700. In 1873, the owner of the house, Charles Covey, bought a licence to sell beer and he named his new enterprise the Sir Roger Tichborne after a sensational court case of the time.
There has been an inn on the site of the Red Lion since the early years of the reign of Henry VIII. The prosperity of the inns in Godalming was based on the coaching traffic between London to Portsmouth and, being around the halfway mark, the town had its array of hostelries. At the back of the Red Lion there survives a first-floor gallery, a smaller version of the galleried yards of the London coaching inns. The coaching trade was killed by the railway in the mid nineteenth century and, for decades afterwards, the town inns were in the doldrums. About 1894 a new landlord, Thomas Myatt, came to the inn and he capitalised on trade brought by cyclists. Business thrived and the visitors' book from that period is full of sketches and complimentary comments about the quality of Myatt's inn and its fare.