Ivy Cottage by Fanny Wale c1914 (Cambs. Archives)

Ivy Cottage, 16 Whittlesford Road, Little Shelford

History of 16 Whittlesford Road

Listed building:

Cottage, early C18 enlarged in early and late C19. Timber framed brick and clunch, rendered with steeply pitched pantiled and plain tiled roofs. Early C18 ridge stack to cottage.

Fanny Wale describes Ivy Cottage in “Shelford Parva”:

On this map of Little Shelford is seen represented Ivy Cottage which in 1803 belonged to Mary Pemberton, daughter of Thomas Wale. In the above ground plan of the Cottage and garden you will see that it was, and is, situated quite near to the Whittlesford Road, surrounded by a garden on the north and west sides, and that no.19 was a strip of orchard leading to the property of M P Wale, her sister. In 18?? Col. R G Wale and his three daughters went to live there, having let Shelford House for a time. Col. Wale died there in 1872, and his daughters continued to live there until 1908. The ground plan of Ivy Cottage remained unaltered from 1803 till 1890 when a fire took place; a large beam in the floor of the south bedroom caught fire in the chimney, and the whole floor of the room and the north wall round the chimney were burned, also the roof of the little shed in the yard called “The Glory Hole.”

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