Listed building:
House, dated 1828 on brick in south gable. Painted gault brick.
1861 unnumbered
Ann Harvey, 69, married, proprietor of houses, b Chesterton
Mary Witt, boarder, widow, 70, dressmaker, b Maidstone Kent
Shadrach Jacob, boarder, widower, 72, retired grocer, b Chesterton
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal 24th August 1861:
Fearful Tragedy at Fen Ditton 1861
The newspaper account of the murder of Ann Harvey by her son Thomas, and his suicide.
Map of the centre of Fen Ditton village in 1901. Ann Harvey’s house is immediately north of the almshouses next to the capital ‘P’.
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