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220 High Street, Cottenham, date unknown (photo E Smith)Probably c.1700. Some fragments of medieval stone in garden.
According to Cottenham in Focus, 2002, this house was built in the 1730s.
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1733:
from Francis Garrett, Cottenham Ablaze:
This is believed to have been the site of Vincent Wayman’s house, where now Gothic House, once the home of Mr Franklin, stands today. Vincent Wayman, a Quaker, experienced a fire and a loss of £1,215.
This building escaped the 1850 fire because it was brick and tile.
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1770:
Bought by the Ivatt family
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1860:
Significant alterations. The porch was erected, the ground floor lowered and decorative chimneys built. (See Cottenham in Focus, 2002)
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1881: Gothic House
Frances Ivatt, 65, b Haddenham
Robert M, 29, farmer miller and maltster of 373 acres employing 24 men 5 boys, b Cottenham
Agnes Mary, daughter, 27, b Cottenham
Mary Anne Sadler, visitor, 42, b London
Lavinia Ivatt, 25, b Cottenham
Henry Robert Hughes, visitor, 19, student of theology, b Haddenham
Elizabeth Barlow, 21, cook, b Madingley
Alice Ward, 19, housemaid, b Coton
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1891:
Robert M Ivatt, 39, farmer and miller
Alice M, 32, wife, b London
Marguerite A, 3,
Josephine E, 2,
Cathleen F, 2,
Emily Sadler, visitor, 50, b London
Elizabeth J Kendrick, 16, housemaid, b Chatteris
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1901:
Robert M Ivatt, gardener
Alice M
Marguerite A
Josephone E
Kathleen F, 12, b Cottenham
Eugenie M, 8, b Cottenham
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1913:
Sold to Fred Chivers for £875
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1943:
Sold to Philips Franklin
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