page_title: Mudeford
section_title: Haven House
hierarchical_section_title: Mudeford / Haven House
caption_attribution_description: English: View from Mudeford Spit across The Run at the mouth of Christchurch Harbour, showing the Priory, Customs Preventive Station and Haven House. The Haven House Inn is obscured by nets hanging on the spit in the foreground.
context_page_description: Mudeford is a harbourside and beach-side parish based on an ex-fishing village in the east of Christchurch, Dorset, England, fronting water on two sides: Christchurch Harbour and the sands of Avon Beach.
  The harbour has the small mouths of The River Mude and Bure Brook at this point, under the main promenade. In the late 20th century small buffer zones to the north-east, north and north-west were infilled with low-rise housing, such that in the 2011 the Christchurch contiguous urban area, excluding Bournemouth, touching to the west, extending along the coast to take in Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire had 54,210 residents. Mudeford is one of its main touristic and leisure urban centres. The ward had a population density of 24 persons per hectare in 2011.
  Mudeford includes two woodland areas, a recreation ground on the north side of Stanpit and All Saints Church.
context_section_description: The oldest of the buildings on Mudeford Quay are now known as Dutch Cottages, formerly (collectively) as Haven House. They were erected together with an adjoining quay in about 1687, in connection with other harbour works under powers of the Salisbury Avon Navigation Act. They stand partially on ground formed by the artificial infilling of the old harbour mouth. As early as January 1699 one of these buildings was serving as an alehouse, and in 1757 it also provided accommodation for fifteen Hessian troops and their sergeant. This was the original Haven House Inn, run by Thomas Humby for at least eighteen years following the death of its landlady, Hannah Sillar, in 1802. Humby also ran the King’s Arms in Christchurch for about the same period of time.  The present Haven House Inn public house nearby is thought to have been constructed in around 1830, and certainly before 1832 when a Mr Dixon became its landlord and it appeared in a topographical etching.
  The district was notorious for smuggling as early as 1680, and a preventive officer of the Customs was already stationed 'att the haven of Christchurch’ in 1719, in addition to the officer stationed in the town. Orders were issued in 1725 for two officers to be stationed 'at the Havens Mouth' and provided with a boat. There being no other buildings there, it is likely that these officers occupied some of the Haven House buildings from this time. Certainly, some time after the foundation of the Coastguard service in 1822 the whole of the Haven House was leased by the Government from the manor of Somerford to house a Chief Officer, Boatmen, and their families. In 1784 the Inn played a central role in the Battle of Mudeford, a violent conflict between a gang of smugglers and naval Revenue officers. This period saw the growth of Mudeford as a fashionable seaside resort for the well-to-do and Humby refurbished and enlarged the Haven House as a sea-bathing lodging-house.
  In 1861 the Admiralty ordered the construction of a new purpose-built Coastguard Station, which was erected on the north side of Christchurch Harbour at Stanpit. By this time Mudeford's popularity as a resort had waned and the Haven House subsequently became fishermen’s cottages and has remained as private dwellings. The building is now Grade II listed.
caption: Mudeford Quay, 1832
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