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Middle farm, Newton OS 1885Home 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
1861 Town Street, unnumbered
Joseph Hagger, 60, ag.lab., b Ickleton
Ann, 50, b Trumpington
Sarah Hagger, 17, b Newton
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
1930 there was a still a mangle for the use of the village in the yard.
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