3 Green Street, Cambridge

History of 3 Green Street

Listed building

Early / Mid C19. Grey gault brick. 3 storeys and attic, 2 windows each, sashes with glazing bars. Nos 3 and 5 have the original elliptically headed shop – windows. Round-headed doors with stone imposts and cast-iron traceried fanlights. The other shop fronts are modern. 2 attic dormers, parapet, roof not visible, but probably slate. (RCHM 161).

1662

Thomas Holcroft was deprived of his Fellowship of Clare College on account of his Puritan principles. He started to form assemblies of other dissenters and one of these was at the home of a Mrs Petit in St Michael’s Parish, possible at this location in Green Street.

See Green Street

1688

On the site of the houses numbered 5,4, and 3 stood an old Independent Chapel, dating back to 1688, generally known as the Old Green Street Meeting House, but later referred to Stittle’s Chapel, after the Rev John Stittle, who served his congregation here from 1781 until his death.

1851

(unnumbered) Charles Thrott Green, 35, carpenter, b Chesterton

1861

Frederick Vinton, 44, copperplate engraver, b London

Mary, 47, sister, housekeeper, b London

1905

TB sent this message in 2026: My Great Aunt Louisa Lambeth lived at No 3 after moving to Cambridge from Oxford in 1905. She and her sister Beatrice lived here together. Louisa is listed as a Landlady and indeed she was Jawaharlal Nehru’s landlady in 1907. Later in the 70s, shortly before her death, she was presented with the gift of a shawl from Indira Gandhi to thank her for looking after her father during his time at Cambridge. Louisa and her sister later moved to Fulbrooke road where she continued looking after students from Trinity college.

1913

Mrs L Lambeth, lodging house keeper

1962

George Strickland & Sons, tailors

2018

Modish