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High Street Passage, Ely (RGL2025)3 High Street Passage, Ely
History of 3 High Street Passage
Listed Building
No 3 High Street Passage, a former shop and open hall house of late-C15/early-C16 date, with later alterations, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: for the surviving core of a late-C15/early-C16 shop and open hall house, with evidence for its evolution also adding to its interest. Its is constructed from good quality local materials and displays evidence of the local building tradition in its carpentry
High Street Passage was known as Tallow Passage because of the tallow candle manufacture that took place there:
John Bard & Cp., High Street Passage. Ely 1864-1883
John Butch & Co, High Street, Ely 1858-1869
Butcher, Bard & Co, High Street Passage, Ely 1875-1879
The manufacture of tallow candles ceased around WWI.
See Audrey Denton, Recollections of Old Ely.
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