The new house was constructed with its "built-in" secret attic chapel, its hiding hole and escape down a chimney with an outer wall.

Efforts were made by the Rookwoods to persuade her to visit them at the hall but these were rewarded by one of the family being thrown in prison in Bury St Edmunds where he later died.

John Gage nearly brought the Coldham mission to an end by arranging for many people to travel to his new church in Bury St Edmunds.

[3] Coldham Cottage itself dates from the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century and has a timber-frame, whitewashed and rendered, with pantile roof and brick central ridge and right end projecting stacks.

A separate church was created utilising one unit of the existing house (kitchen and bedroom with removal of floor) and building on an extension.

[2] Following renovation work to the cottage, there is now a resident priest as well as facility to provide holiday accommodation for clergy wanting to take time off from their own parishes.