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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.
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