The Old House (formerly Buckingham's House) is older than the other substantial farmhouses in the village.  Its proportions - longer and lower - and the details of the fenestration and doorheads, suggest a date from the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.

The long abandoned shop, with a memory of Bob Buckingham is mentioned in an article from the WEA booklet Aspects of Helmdon no 5

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