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Site of Rose Cottage, Church Street, Little Shelford

History of Rose Cottage

Fanny Wale says in ‘Shelford Parva’:

The house next door to the Chequers is called Rose Cottage. it was built by Whybro the carpenter, but then it was burned down and rebuilt by Thomas Austin.

The Charles Gees came to live in Rose Cottage on January 5th 1870. he was a painter and plumber.

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