You can say yes, that's a 16th-century cottage, but what people really want to know is what about the man who lived here - what kind of a rascal was he?
Rowland Parker talks to Peter France about the ordinary people who have lived in Oxton in Cambridgeshire - like John Rayner who annoyed his Elizabethan neighbours, and Joanna Puckering who was fined 3d by a medieval court for brewing weak ale.