Ellum’s Cottage, 13 High Street, Little Shelford

History of Ellum's Cottage

Ellum’s cottage is the building in the background, second from the left in Fanny Wale’s drawing.

Fanny wrote about it c.1908:

Behind these premises [Butler’s house] is a thatched cottage belonging to the Wale property inhabited by Mr and Mrs William Ellum (née Gillingham). There is a good garden with a hedge round …. The Ellum family is one of the oldest of Shelford Parva and connected with many others.