The Bowling Green, High Street, Chesterton

25 – 27 High Street, Chesterton, Bowling Green, Robert Peel, Queen’s Arms

History of 25 - 27 High Street Chesterton

Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: house, now two tenements, not. 25, 27 High Street …. though of the 18th cent., the building has been drastically altered and a N wing added in the 19th cent. The street front is of 18th cent. brown brick to the top of the first floor windows; all above, in Gault bricks and the roof, are of the 19th cent. The front was symmetrical, with a central doorway, two windows to each side and five above; the original door case has gone; one of the windows has been converted into a second doorway…. No. 27 is  the ‘Bowling Green’ public house.

1755 King’s Arms [?]

1780 Queen’s Arms

The Bowling Green dates from 1789. It took its name from the bowling green laid out in the back garden.

1840a: Sir Robert Peel

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1871 High Street Sir Robert Peel Hotel

John Harding, 62, wheelwright, b Norfolk

Alice, 60, b Lincs

Mary Golding, daughter, 32, b Norfolk

Rosa Hannah Harding, 22, b Norfolk

Alice Harding, 14, b Norfolk

Robert L Walker, lodger, 46, annuitant, b Teversham

Thomas Jackson. lodger, 36, shoemaker, b London

Alice Golding, granddaughter, 5, b London

In 1876 Robert Walker died of fatty degeneration of the heart and he was living in Victoria Road Chesterton. In 1861 he had been living on Willowes Farm in Teversham. In 1872 his wife Elizabeth was detained in Fulbourn lunatic asylum.

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1890s the Bowling Green

1913

(25) John Waller, basket maker

(27) John Waller, Bowling Green PH

1936 closed

1962

(25-27) David Ellis, architect

1985 still retained upstairs billiards room