Middle farm, Newton OS 1885

Home Farm (Middle Farm) Newton

History of Home Farm Newton

Listed building:

House, possibly of C16 origins with C17 alterations, enlarged and altered again in 1900.

Barn, C18. Dressed clunch with pebblestone to one gable end and the rear wall rebuilt in common brick.

Barn, C18. Dressed clunch with red brick quoins except for the front wall which is timber-framed and weatherboarded.

Dovecote, C18. Clay bat, dressed clunch, flint and red brick. Plain tiled roof with original landing stage.

By 1837 it included Dove Farm Close, a small field in which the Dove House stood alone. The Dove House is said to be the smallest circular dove-cote in the county.

1858 Joseph Hagger, postmaster and shopkeeper

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1861 Town Street, unnumbered

Joseph Hagger, 60,  ag.lab., b Ickleton

Ann, 50, b Trumpington

Sarah Hagger, 17, b Newton

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1881

Home Farm:

William Cro, 50, farm bailiff, b Essex

Elizabeth Webb, niece, 14, b Barrington

 

Home Farm Cottages:

Joseph Hagger, 80, ag.lab., b Ickleton

Mary, daughter, 43, b Newton

 

William Pack, 75, ag.lab., b Herts

William, 43, ag.lab., b Newton

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1930 there was a still a mangle for the use of the village in the yard.