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A narrow road lined with high brick walls and mature trees leads into the distance under a bright sky with scattered clouds.

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.

A round purple plaque on a stone wall commemorates author Philippa Pearce, noting her residence and book Tom’s Midnight Garden.

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.

Building dates

  • Built 1800–1840
Source for this date
  • Built 1800–1840: Listed building: early C19 (grade II)

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