Westfield, Little Shelford, 1915

Westfield, High Street, Little Shelford

History of Westfield, Little Shelford

Listed building:

Farmhouse, c.1840. White brick with low pitch roof of slate.

Fanny Wale writes at length about Westfield in Shelford Parva:

The house was probably built by Michael Foster who lived in it for many years; he was connected with the clever physiologist Sir Michael Foster who built the house called “Nine Wells” at Great Shelford, and died there in 1870, leaving a son named Michael, an MD.

Mr Foster of Westfields [sic] was a nonconformist and objected to paying tithes. … Inside the yard is stabling for several horses, and a cottage for groom.s. Captain and Miss Ferris lived in this cottage, they were Mr Foster’s adopted children; he departed this life in 1870 and then Miss Perrin married a Naval officer named Bonfoy; she became a widow and died in 1913 without making a will, only expressing in written letters a wish that her brother should inherit her fortune, but both Captain Perrin and his son were dead, so the daughters claimed the money. … Eventually the Westfields house and grounds were bought by Mr Smith, a haverdasher [sic] of Cambridge, who frequently came there with his wife. He enlarged and improved the house and it was hired by various people for short periods.

Mrs Eglysias

Mr and Mrs Lomax

Captain Reginald and Mrs Hall

Arthur William Smith

Platt Higgins