Dr Richard Bentley, Trinity College (Wikipedia)Listed Building
House. 1727 probably for Dr Bentley, Classical Scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Minor additions of c.1840 at rear. … In c.1840 the left hand, ground floor room was converted to a parish room and access was from a doorway in the addition. The house was to be “fit for the reception of a person of rank and quality”. It was insisted that brick from “beyond London” was to be used. (Historic England)
Built in 1727 by Dr Bentley as a fishing lodge, by “London builders with London bricks.” After his death in 1742 it was let to John Collet who farmed it as the Vicarage Glebe. Given to the Church in 1840.
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