A two-story stone house features a central entrance with columns, a balcony above, and rounded wings on either side.

Priory Hill House, St Neots c.1930

Priory Hill House, St Neots

History of Priory Hill House

An elderly man in a bowler hat and overcoat walks with two canes, followed by a younger man in a suit standing by a pillar.

George Fydell Rowley of Priory House, St Neots, 1930s

The first house was built in the C18th and rebuilt in the C19th. The Rowley family lived here for several generations until the house was bought by the local authority in the 1960s and then demolished in 1965 to make way for a housing estate.

George Fydell Rowley was an eccentric, opposed to moto-cars. He expected guests to arrive by horse-drawn vehicles. He died in 1933.

A small white cottage with a thatched roof sits surrounded by dense trees and foliage in a sepia-toned vintage photograph.

Thatched cottages for the gamekeeprs who worked for Priory House. They were built shortly before 1890. Photo 1890. They were demolished after WWII.

A postcard view shows a tree-lined lane framed in an oval, with the words Merry Christmas printed in the bottom left corner.

Priory Hill Avenue, St Neots in 1902

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