Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • South Cambridge­shire
  • /
  • Melbourn
  • Back Forward
A white cottage with a thatched roof and small-paned windows, set behind a white picket fence amidst trees and garden shrubs.

7 Drury Lane, Melbourn c1980s

7, Drury Lane, Thatchery Haze, Melbourn

History of 7 Drury Lane

Listed Building:

Cottage. c.1750 and late C20. Timber framed, rendered and long straw thatch, half hipped roof with grey brick single flue ridge stack of C19.

1983 – 1992

The Mayes family. The house was thatched by Mr Stanford who also lived in Drury Lane.

Myself and my parents lived here from 1983 for around 10 years..  The cottage was originally called Thatchery Haze I remember.  It was rethatched around 1986 by the local thatcher who lived just a few doors down.  He had previously thatched it once beforehand when he was young. I do have a few photos of the house if you would like them from that time.  My mum always suggested there were many ghostly happenings when we lived there.   (Email from DT 2023)

A white cottage with a thick thatched roof features a small dormer window and an iron bracket attached to the front slope.

7 Drury Lane, Melbourn c1980s

A person wearing a cap and dark clothing works on a thatched roof, supported by a ladder against the side of the house.

7 Drury Lane, Melbourn c1980s

A large, high pile of golden straw sits in a garden beside a white building with a timber-framed upper window and greenery.

7 Drury Lane, Melbourn c1980s

Tags

  • Listed building

Projects

  • Melbourn

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Melbourn

21 High Street, Danesbury House, Melbourn

48 High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck

Statue of Jonas Webb, Babraham

Goldington House, New Road

Police Station Lane / Cross Lane, Melbourn

3 Drury Lane, Cherry Tree Cottage, Melbourn

43 – 47 High Street, Melbourn

17 High Street, Melbourn

Police Station, Magistrates Court, Police Station Lane / Cross Lane, Melbourn

59 / 63 High Street, Elm Tree, Melbourn

108 High Street, Old Manor House, Melbourn

Old Vicarage, Melbourn

6 Little Lane, Melbourn