A three-storey red brick building with white-framed sash windows and a blue door framed by a decorative white classical arch.

12 Mill Lane Cambridge

12 Mill Lane, Mill Haven, East House

History of 12 Mill Lane

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge notes: the present building complex includes a 16th cent. house on the west, with a house of c. 1775 adjoining on the east with a contemporary kitchen wing extending south. The ground floor of the 16th cent. house is cased in 18th cent. brick. Inside there survives some 17th cent. panelling as well as most of the fittings of the 18th cent. dining room.

1871

Thomas Newman

1881

E Newman

1891

David Palmer

1911 not listed

1913 Walter Charles Holt

1942

Adrienne Weil set up a graduate lodging house here where Rosalind Franklin lived at the end of her fourth year of studies at Cambridge

Black and white head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman with dark wavy hair wearing a pearl necklace and a light-colored top.

Rosalind Franklin

See ‘Cambridge Women – Twelve Portraits’, chapter 12, Jenifer Glynn, 1996.

1950

Three-story brick building with sash windows, brown shutters, and an arched doorway featuring a decorative surround.

12 Mill Lane, 1950 (photo E H Minns)

1962 Women Graduates Club

Projects

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