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KIngs Mill Lane (RGL2024)

Owldom, The Hermitage, Water Meadow, Kings Mill Lane, Great Shelford

History of 3 cottages Kings Mill Lane

Listed building:

Cottages, early C19 originally ranges of mill workers cottages with warehousing, granary and workshop at the south end. Restored mid C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded with pantiled and thatched roof of long straw.

Philippa Pearce was the youngest of four children of Ernest Alexander Pearce and his wife Gertrude Alice née Ramsden. Ernest was a flour miller and corn merchant and they lived in the Mill House on the River Cam. Philippa attended the Perse School for Girls and then Girton College Cambridge.

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