Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
The Plough and Fleece, High Street, Horningsea

The Plough and Fleece, High Street, Horningsea

History of the Plough and Fleece, High Street

Listed building:

Inn. Late C18, early C19. Painted brick with plain tile mansard roof.

1842 Nutter Sale notice (Cambridgeshire Archives)

The Plough and Fleece beer house was listed as lot 1 in the bankruptcy auction of James Nutter that took place on Thursday 26 May 1842 at 11am at the Eagle Inn in Cambridge. In the auction particulars it is stated that the then tenant of the beer house was Thomas Pettit. The property was described as follows: freehold roomy brick and tile house (recently put in the most complete repair) containing an excellent tap-room, parlour, cellarage and several sleeping rooms over together with the yard, garden and outbuildings. It was also stated that Mr Fison had  a right of way through the yard to his brick kilns.

Plough and Fleece, Horningsea (RGL2024)

Fireplace, Plough and Fleece, Horningsea

Boule court, Plough and Fleece, Horningsea

Share this article

Share on Bluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for exploring historical Cambridgeshire! We hope you enjoy your visit.

Capturing Cambridge makes accessible thousands of photos and memories of Cambridge and its surrounding villages and towns. It is run by the Museum of Cambridge which, though 90 years old, is one of the most poorly publicly funded local history museums in the UK. It receives no core funding from local or central government nor from the University of Cambridge. As a result, we are facing a crisis; we have no financial cushion unlike many other museums in Cambridge and are facing the need to drastically cut our operations back.

This could affect our ability to continue to run and develop this groundbreaking local history website. If Capturing Cambridge matters to you, then the survival of the Museum of the Cambridge should matter as well.

If you won’t support the preservation of your heritage, no-one else will! Your support is critical.

If you love Capturing Cambridge, and you are able to, we’d appreciate your support today.

Every donation makes a world of difference.

Thank you,
Roger Lilley, Chair of Trustees
Museum of Cambridge