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1-2 Free School Lane
c1960See also 12 Bene’t Street
House nos. 1 and 2 at the corner of Bene’t Street is of three storeys with basement and attics. The walls are of plastered timber-framing elaborated with modern applied timber. It was built either as one or two tenements late in the 16th cent. Extensive alterations have been made; the present shop front to no.1 is of the 18th cent. (1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge)
Luttburne Lane appears on a map of 1574.
1851:
(1) Mary Sandifer, widow, 70, bookseller and stationer, b Haddenham
Sarah Sandifer
Servant, 14, b Haslingfield
(2) Charles West, 57, proprietor of houses, b Middlesex
Mary, retired story maker
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1887:
(1)
Frederick Haywood, bookseller
(2)
Arundell and Tarte, architects and surveyors
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1935:
Friar House Restaurant 1935
Friar House Restaurant photo reverse (1935)
Photo kindly sent by family which shows family details including ownership of the Friar House restaurant by the Curry family in the 1940s and 1950s. See 12 Bene’t Street entry.
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1937:
Bene’t Sreet and Free School Lane, 1937 (photo J Baldwin)
The road had been widened in 1908 and made a one-way street in 1936.
G M Wyatt, The Friar House Cafe
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1962: not listed in Kellys
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1965: (2a)
Sunil Kumar, photographer
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1970: (2)
Oriental Restaurant
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