Hall Farm, Little Shelford by Fanny Wale (Camb. Archives)

Hall Farm, High Street, Little Shelford

History of Hall Farm

Listed building:

Farmhouse, early C15 with additions and alterations of C17 and later. Timber framed, plaster and roughcast rendered on a brick plinth.

Barn, early C16. Timber framed, weatherboarded on a brick plinth with roof, now of corrugated iron, hipped to west end.

Fanny Wale wrote the following about Hall Farm in Shelford Parva:

The names of the tenant farmers who have lived at this farm from remote times are as follows:

William Clear

“Gentleman” Howard

Marking

Dennis and her brother were drowned in the ship “London” which turned turtle in the Bay of Biscay

Mr Wiles

1885 Colonel Wale let his residency in 1885 to some people from Australia named Hallet. Colonel Wale and two of his daughters moved into the commodious Farm House.