The short answer to this is that it has not been possible to identify any of the occupants of the hall house. The documentary sources surviving for the medieval period only identify peasant holdings by the name of a previous tenant. In a minority of cases the tenant’s name has survived in a modern place name but in most cases, including that of the hall house, it has not. Later records are similarly unhelpful.

Although the hall house is numbered on the 1839 tithe map, it has no corresponding entry in the accompanying schedule. This is because it formed part of a large parcel of lands owned by Thomas Thistlethwaite for which tithe payments had at some previous date been merged. Moreover, as patron of the church, Thistlethwaite owned all the tithes. The omission of the house from the 1841 census (which listed all residential dwellings) would suggest that at this date it was not being used as a domestic residence.

However, whilst the medieval occupants remain unknown, it is possible to say with reasonable confidence that they were likely to have been customary tenants, probably men like John and Simon Roche, who had benefited from the post-Black Death conditions and acquired a number of holdings, which could have included a mixture of free and customary land.