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A beige brick building with a side painted cream stands on a narrow road beside a row of smaller, older stone cottages.

16 Church Street Fen Ditton

16 Church Street, Fen Ditton

History of 16 Church Street

Listed building:

House, dated 1828 on brick in south gable. Painted gault brick.


1861 unnumbered

Ann Harvey, 69, married, proprietor of houses, b Chesterton

Mary Witt, boarder, widow, 70, dressmaker, b Maidstone Kent

Shadrach Jacob, boarder, widower, 72, retired grocer, b Chesterton


Cambridge Chronicle and Journal 24th August 1861:

Fearful Tragedy at Fen Ditton 1861

The newspaper account of the murder of Ann Harvey by her son Thomas, and his suicide.

Map of the centre of Fen Ditton village in 1901. Ann Harvey’s house is immediately north of the almshouses next to the capital ‘P’.

A black-and-white 1901 Ordnance Survey map detail showing buildings, a graveyard, and road labels in Fen Ditton.

1901 OS map: central Fen Ditton

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Building dates

  • Built 1828
Source for this date
  • Built 1828: Listed building: 1828 (grade II)

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