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Little Newnham, Frostlake Cottage and the Malting House, Malting Lane (Malting House School)

History of the Little Newnham

Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: Little Newnham and Frostlake Cottage … it occupies the W end of a range of buildings along the S side of malting Lane of 18th cent. origin but very much altered, comprising houses, cottages, matings, last-houses and stables; malting House at the E end has been so extensively remodelled that it is virtually a modern  building.  The house was built early in the 19th century, enlarged later in the first half of the same century, and subsequently divided into two tenements: Little Newnham to the W., Frostlake Cottage to the E., the latter incorporating a lower range of early 18th century buildings on the E., probably originally stables, for the kitchen, etc.

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Information about the school that was run at this site can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malting_House_School

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1913:

(The Malting House) Rev Hugh Fraser Stewart

Hugh Fraser Stewart

H L Pass, St John’s College

Rt Rev Bishop William Moore Richardson (late of Zanzibar)

William Moore Richardson

Rev T Thompson, Caius College

Rev J F Buxton, Clare College

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Hugh Fraser Stewart’s daughter was Frida.

Frida Knight née Stewart

For more information see:

A Cambridge hero who took on the fascists – in two conflicts…and lived

Book Review: The Memoirs of Frida Stewart, published 01 July 2020.

Frida Knight leads 2,000 anti-nuclear weapons protestors through Cambridge. 1980

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Early 1930s: home to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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1962:

(The Malting House) Mrs J Stewart, L D Stewart

(Malting Cottage) Miss A Nunn

(The Loft) George D S Henderson

(Frostlake Cottage) Meyrick C M Owen

(Little Newnham) Patrice E Charvet

(Church Rate Corner) Henry S Bennett

Church Rate Corner is a listed building, built 1924.