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74a Broad Street, Ely

History of 74a Broad Street

Listed Building

Circa mid C19. Gault brick in Flemish bond with freestone quoins, window arches and cills. Slate hipped roof with deep eaves, corbel capitals at corners, the left and front with lion mark below. … reputedly built for Edmund Caxton, Clerk to Ely Union of Guardians in 1883, which could alternatively be the date of the service wing possibly also the stair tower. Later in C19 occupied by one of the cathedral organists.

 

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