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Two-storey Victorian house in yellow brick with two symmetrical bay windows featuring decorative stone panels and chimneys.

259 High Street Cottenham

259 & 257 (165) High Street, Cottenham

History of 259 & 257 High Street Cottenham

The history of the occupation of this location is difficult to reconstruct. Cottenham in Focus, 2002, contains two photos, one after the construction of no.259, Coronation Villa, and one before, when the thatched cottage on the north side extended further.

Jonathan Piggott is said to have owned the whole of this older property and left it to his daughter, Mrs Bertha Munsey and Mrs Alfred Moore.

A street scene in Cottenham showing a white thatched cottage on the right, terraced buildings on the left, and a horse-drawn cart.

257 – 259 High Street, Cottenham before the building of Coronation Villa in 1902 (photo E Smith)

Half was pulled down when Mrs Alfred Moore built Coronation Villa (now no.239) in 1902.

A street view in Cottenham featuring a prominent modern brick house on the right and a thatched cottage further down the road.

257 – 259 High Street Cottenham, after building of Coronation Villa in 1902 (photo E Smith)

The other half did survive for several more years.

1911

Ellis Charles Munsey, 66, basket making and vegetable gardening, b Cottenham

Bertha, 62, b Cottenham

Mary Lizzie Young, 23, b Cottenham

 

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