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12 Mill Lane

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 W, with a house of c. 1775 adjoining on the E with a contemporary kitchen wing extending S.  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

Rosalind Franklin

1950

12 Mill Lane, 1950 (photo E H Minns)

1962 Women Graduates Club

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