45-61 Chesterton Road later Arundel House, Chesterton Road

61 Chesterton Road (Arundel House), Cambridge

History of Arundel House, Chesterton Road

One of a series of Grade II listed late nineteenth century buildings.

1913

Boston Elphinstone Fordyce MB CM surgeon, Alderman of the County Council

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1962

Mrs C Kay

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Arundel House Hotel opens — 30 November 1972
A new hotel opens in Cambridge this week – and with 33 bedrooms it becomes the fourth largest in the city. The new Arundel House Hotel is a complex of red brick houses on Chesterton Road overlooking the River and Jesus Green. The development follows the purchase of number 61 Chesterton Road last year and its conversion into a 12-bedroomed hotel. Now John Norfolk has converted two other adjacent properties he owns – from flats and bedsitters to an integrated hotel complex. “With house prices as they are now it is virtually impossible to charge a proper rent related to these new values,” he said. “The transition of Chesterton Road into a hotel was the obvious answer to get a proper return”

Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge Chesterton Road Area Scrapbook, reference 1972 11 30