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5 Market Hill
History of 5 Market Hill
According to Pevsner’s Cambridgeshire, no. 5 is timber-framed with restored tile-hanging. In 1688 it was remodelled with a rich shell-hood over the door with brackets and putti, re-set on the upper floor when the ground floor became a shop. First-floor ceiling also of 1688, of plaster with a central space representing a cloudy sky, similar to that of the Old Library in Pembroke College.
1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge also says that the house was probably built in the 17th cent. and that the plaster ceiling may be the work of Henry Doogood who was employed on Wren’s City churches. The plaster ceiling has cartouches containing the arms of the Draper’s Company and of Watson. Thus it seems probable that the improvements were commissioned by William Watson, Alderman of Cambridge 1696-1702 (bap. 1665 d. 1722) son of William Watson burgess and linen-draper. However the arms in question, those of Watson of Rockingham, are those to which he may have had no right. Details of the ceiling are very similar to those of the Old Library in Pembroke College which was the work of Henry Doogood.
See Enid Porter:
No. 5 Market Hill ceiling detail
No.5 Market Hill detail of ceiling
1712
William Watson appeared in court over a dispute he had had with a John Frohock at Stourbridge Fair.
1846
Frederick Hebblewhite, linen and woollen draper
Romilly records in his Cambridge Diary 10.3.1846 that bin the aftermath of the Headly ironfoundry fire in February, Hebblewhite’s re-opened their shop with a sale of linen damaged by fire and water. “Offered at an immense sacrifice. One portion of the stock, consisting of straw bonnets will be nearly given away.” Camb. Chronicle 28.2.
1851
Frederick Hebblewhite, 50, linen draper, b Lincs
1871
John R Maye, 42, draper, b Herts
Helen H, 39, b London
Helen Ransom, 15, b Cambridge
Herbert C Graves, draper’s assistant, b Chesterton,
Fred Skinner, 19, draper’s assistant, b Comberton
Jane Ilett, 22, servant, b Croydon
1881
1891
1901
1911
Frank Valentine Wiggins, 30, lodging house keeper, b Wales
Gertrude, 30, b Oxon
Winifred, daughter, 2, b Cambridge
Gertrude Shipp, nursemaid, 13, b Cambs
1913
Frank Wiggins, lodging house keeper
Behind this address was also the Great Eastern and Great Northern Railway Receiving Office
5 Market Hill c.1930
5 Market Hill 1971 (MoC 147/71)
5 Market Hill (RGL2024)
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