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Low Farm, Elsworth 1595 (RCHM)

Low Farmhouse, 45 Brook Street, Elsworth

History of Low Farmhouse

Listed Building

Farmhouse. Porch lintel dated ‘IHA 1595 EGD’.

It is suggested in “The Church and Village of Elsworth, Cambridgeshire” (2006) that the medieval Guild Hall dedicated to St Katherine and St Mary was at this location. It was sometomes known as Church House or Town House and in 1522 by the will of Richard Crisp “the late Guild Hall now the Town HOuse” was sold to Hill and James. The Town HOuse continued to serve the village as a public place with special concern for the poor. In the early seventeenth century it was used as a workhouse. That end of the village was known as Workhouse End up to the 20th century.

In 1550 the manor was sold to Dr Thomas Wendy of Haslingfield, court physician to Henry VIII. he was President of Gonville Hall in 1527 and lived on Market Hill, Cambridge before building a mansion in Haslingfield.

In 1656 the manor was sold by  Samuel Disbrowe of Eltisley. he emigrated in 1639 to new England.

 

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