Newton Hall, Town Street

History of Newton Hall

Listed building:

Country-house c.1909 by F. Foster for Sir Charles Walston Now offices. Red brick with hipped, slate and leaded roofs and tall, internal stacks with recessed panels to sides and projecting capping.

The Pemberton family connection with newton began with the marriage of Robert Stevenson’s sister, Ann, to Christopher Pemberton Snr of Trumpington in 1760. Christopher Pemberton Senior died in 1809 and his land was left to Christopher Pemberton Jnr (1767-1850) who by 1840 owned about 140 acres in Newton. He built Newton Hall in the 1850s and lived there until his death in 1884 when his property passed to the grandson of his uncle Jeremy, a Major Christopher Robert Pemberton. There are a number of Pemberton memorials in the church.

1861 Mr Pemberton’s House

1871 Newton Hall

C R Pemberton, 70, J P and D L County Cambs, b London

Henrietta, 63, b London

James Goldsmith, 25, footman, b Herefordshire

Mary Brewer, 28, cook, b Somersetshire

Sarah Symonds, 24, dairymaid, b Somersetshire

Eliza Matthews, 17, kitchenmaid, b Cambs

Anne Love, 18, housemaid, b Berks

Newton Hall stables:

Ebenezer Arthur, 34, coachman, b Croxton

Mary, 32, b Eltisley

Sydney Mason, lodger, 27, groom, b Hants

Gardener’s Cottage:

William Anthony, 30, gardener, b Bucks

Anne, 32, b Norfolk

Anne, 4, b Newton

Alice, 2, b Newton

Leticia, 3 mos, b Newton

1881

Christopher R Pemberton, 81, magistrate retired officer of the army, b London

Henrietta, 74,

Rosine Fornini, governess, b Switzerland

Henrietta Montague, granddaughter, b London

Alice Eales, 24, cook, b Hants

Caroline Warburton, 29, ladysmaid, b Middlesex

Sarah Jane Ayres, 40, housemaid, b Gloucs

Alice Sheldrick, 19, housemaid, b Newton

Phoebe Cornell, 22, kitchenmaid, b Linton

Thomas Thurlow, 52, butler, b Cambridge

James Aslett, 19, footman, b Middlesex

Ebenezer Arthur, 44, coachman, b Croxton

Mary, 42, b Eltisley

John Webb, boarder, 19, groom, b Little Shelford

1884

death of C R Pemberton

tenant was Captain Theodore Henry Brinckman

1890s

Frederick Granville Sinclair tenant

1901 (census): The Hall

Vacant

The Hall Stables: Thomas Bowyer, 36, groom, b Suffolk

1908

estate was sold to Charles Waldstein

The house was then rebuilt in the Queen Anne style. Sir Charles and Lady Waldstein maintained a large household with about 18 servants. He was the son of a New York merchant and Lady Florence was also from New York. Because of anti-German sentiment they changed their name to Walston. Charles died in1927 and his remains were placed in a mausoleum next to the church.

1970 Newton Hall sold to the National Seed Development organisation with 12 acres of land.