Bottisham Hall (MoC270/54)

Bottisham Hall, Tunbridge Lane

History of Bottisham Hall

Listed Building

Country house built 1797 for Rev G L Jenyns possibly by Charles Humfrey. Grey brick with low pitch, hipped roofs of slate, with boarded eaves and boxed guttering. Ridge stacks. … Charles Humfrey also designed the Vicarage at Swaffham Bulbeck.

This building replaced an earlier house.

9 April 1926 — Hall Farm

The annual report of the Cambs District Milk Recording Scheme records the total number of herds was 96 and the number of cows 1,168. The maximum yield of milk given by a cow was 16,194 lbs. It was with regret that members heard that Mr A. Macarthur has decided to give up the Hall Farm at Bottisham. He was the first chairman and the owner of one of the finest herds of heavy-milking commercial cattle in the Eastern Counties. The Rev C.H. Brocklebank is leaving Bartlow & Col. W.F. Northman has disposed of his herd to Major S.G. Howard of Kirtling. — Mike Petty, Bottisham Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

14 April 1936 — Bottisham Hall

Roger W.B. Jenyns of Bottisham Hall took the welfare of village cricket to heart and presented a cup with the final played in his Park. The first member of the family to live in Bottisham was Sir Roger Jenyns who was knighted for his services in the drainage of the fens. Others included Sarah, the famous Duchess of Marlborough, and Soame Jenyns a great literary character of the 18th century while an uncle was one of the survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. He is succeeded by Roger Soame Jenyns who after four years in the Colonial Service at Hong Kong is now a Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum 36 04 14 — Mike Petty, Bottisham Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.

20 October 1944 — Jenyns memorial in Bottisham church

Memorial Tablet. — A memorial to the late Mr. R. W. B. Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, was recently dedicated by the Archdeacon of Huntingdon (Ven. W. A. Uthwatt, late Vicar of Bottisham). It is in the form of a tablet designed in the Renaissance style, with a carved and coloured coat of arms above the inscription within a surround of delicate mouldings. It is placed against the stone chancel screen and is dedicated to him by his wife and three sons. — Mike Petty, Bottisham Scrapbook 1897 to 1990.