11 High Street, Stearn’s House, Mrs Cooper’s School,Little Shelford

History of 11 High Street Little Shelford

Listed Building:

Cottage, late C17 with slightly later bay added to road end. Timber framed, plaster rendered with steeply pitched roof of interlocking tiles, originally thatched.

Fanny Wale’s drawing shows, from left to right, the Chapel, Ellom’s thatched cottage, Stearn’s House, Butlar’s house and shop, Elbourn’s house, King’s Farm.

Fanny Wale, c.1908, writes:

The small house (in which the Stearns now live) at the end of Camping Close, near the Congregational Chapel, was once inhabited by Mr and Mrs James Cooper and their children, John, a daughter who emigrated to Australia, another girl married John Keeth the bootmaker, Charles who was born deaf and dumb but learned to talk and understand other people and worked under his father who was head gardener at Old Shelford Hall, and subsequently was house boy in the new house.