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

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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.