38 (10/11) Newmarket Road, The Lilacs

History of 38 Newmarket Road

Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: House, no. 38, … of three storeys with basement, has walls of Gault brick and slate covered roof. In 1831 a sale advertisement described it as part of the estate of the late George Peacocke and ‘built … by the late William Wilkins Esq., architect, for his own occupation’ (Cambridge Chronicle 9 Dec). William Wilkins sen. (1751-1815) had built for himself Newnham Cottage by c. 1805 and the house may be assigned to the end of the 18th century. It is therefore an early example of a type of house usually associated with the Regency. … In the basement are ‘two capital kitchens’, on the first floor ‘ a noble drawing room, best bedroom adjoining, store room or china closet’, on the floor above ‘ four good rooms’.

1851 Brewery Newmarket Road

William Henry Apthorpe, 42, brewer, b Cambridge

Apthorpe was, around this time, an active member of the Cambridge Liberal Association and the Liberal Member for East Barnwell. See ‘The Spinning House’ by Caroline Biggs, p87.

1861 (10)

William Henry Apthorpe, 52, alderman brewer employing 3 men, b Cambridge

1871 (10)

William Apthorpe

1881 (11)

Amelia Apthorpe

1891 –

1913

Herbert E Verrinder, Quartermaster-Lieut. 1st Battalion Cambs Regt.

1962

(36-38) Festival Theatre wardrobe and workshop