The plot that is now Jasmine Cottage was part of an orchard that stretched along the eastern side of the High Street (now St James Road) from the back of the houses on Bridge Street all the way to what is now the boundary between Jasmine and Bay Tree Cottages.

The first indication we have of the large orchard plot being broken up is in 1930 when the Stones, with the agreement of the trustees of the Oddfellows Lodge, agree to sell a very small plot, just 33ft by 44ft 6ins, in the far south-west corner of the orchard to the Postmaster General for the purpose of a Post Office. It is thought that this plot is now taken up by the off-street parking area for Bay Tree Cottage.

It's in the following year, 1931, that we see the "Jasmine Cottage plot" emerge for the first time when the Stones sold off another bit of the south-west corner of the orchard. Next to the proposed Post Office, with 48ft of frontage onto the High St and extending 167ft back from the road the plot was sold to Charles Willey who was described as a Dairyman of Netherbury.

At some point over the next six years a bungalow was built but it has not been possible to confirm if Willey ever occupied it himself. In 1937 Phoebe Blair the Head Teacher at Netherbury Elementary School bought it and by the time the England and Wales Register was drawn up in 1939, it had been given the name "The Gables". The same Register records Charles Willey, now descibed as a "Chauffeur Gardener", living with his wife and son around the corner in Chantry Cottage. In 1951 The Gables was sold to Frederick Bailey a farmer from Frogmore Farm, Marshwood and a year later to Eric Colebrooke, another farmer, from Keighley in Yorkshire.

By the time Eric Colebrooke sold it, six years later in 1958, it had been renamed "Hedgerows". The next owner was William Smiles, a professional driver from London. In 1960 he paid his neighbour Miss K M Brooks of Bay Cottage to allow him to move the boundary between the properties so that he could build a garage on the southern side of the bungalow. In 1965 Marie Antrovena Smiles, William's wife, became a joint owner and a year later, with William now described as a retired chauffeur they sold it to another couple, Stanley and Laura Cole. Sadly Laura Cole died in 1975 but Stanley stayed on in the house until 1988 when it was bought by Colin and Lorna Walker from Guildford in Surrey.

The Walkers continued living in Guildford and applied for planning permission to demolish Hedgerows and erect a four bedroom house in its place. Planning Permission was granted in 1989, in 1994 ownership was transferred to Gloria Hennessey and Jasmine Cottage was officially completed by the builders Fox & Hughes from Bradpole in 1995.