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Tudor School
The Tudor Chantry School day at Ashwell offers a unique experience for KS2 pupils. After an introduction in the Parish Room, pupils spend the morning in St. Mary’s church, in role as Tudor school children. Lunch is eaten in the Parish Room, or on the village recreation grounds in fine weather. This is followed by a walk around the village to investigate timber framed buildings. In the afternoon, pupils visit Ashwell Museum where they are given...
Foresters' Cottages
These fine, timber-framed buildings date from the early 15th century. Those now numbered 2 and 3 formed the original Hall House, with no. 1 being added later. The Ancient and Honourable Order of Foresters, whose insignia is in the Ashwell Museum, purchased the buildings as an investment. During the Victorian era they were divided into five cottages and plastered over. At one time in the 19th century there were 35 people living in the fi...
The Saddlery
The Saddlery was built in approximately 1750. A saddlery was run here by the Bacon family for over a hundred years. They made and sold horse tack, tarpaulins and rope here. Some of the items made here are on display in the Museum, along with some of the rope-making equipment. Later this was also the first place in Ashwell to sell petrol. The ropewalk can be seen at the rear of the property, above the stable, now (2005) used as the Ost...
The Fox
... The Fox, another Fordham’s pub, is in Station Road about halfway to the station,next to the Cinques cottages.It was built before 1840 and was flint faced. It closed in 1959 and is now a private dwelling.The front of the building has been plastered where the flints used to be. ...
Niton Cottage
Niton Cottage is timber-framed with a brick fascia construction at the front and chalk blocks (clunch) making up the back section. Under the front section of the house is a cellar with a head-height of approximately five feet (1.5m). On purchasing Niton Cottage in July 2004 we were presented with archive material relating to the history of the house. The first mention of the cottage that we can find is in the Last Will and Testament of Ann Wald...
The Adelong
... mandy ho have you got any info on Pack family we are look for Thomas Pack ...
The Guildhouse of the Brotherhood of St John the Baptist
The Guild of St John the Baptist was established in 1476 under the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln and The Duke of Clarence, King Edward IV’s brother (later, according to legend, drowned in a butt of malmsey wine). It was endowed with a mixture of arable and pasture land which brought in an income of between 3s. 2d. (16p) and 4s. 2d. (21p) per acre. The centre of the Guild was this Guildhouse, a timber-framed building with wattle and daub i...
Bacon's House
· Bacon’s House, along with the Saddlery next door, is thought to have been built some time in the 17th century. · Early in the 18th century the Bacon family lived here, running a dairy farm in what is now Bacon’s Yard. · In 1737, Edward Bacon was appointed one of the two constables for Ashwell. · When, in 1801, the first census was taken, William Bacon received 5 shillings “for making a list of the population”. · At the time of the 1841 census, ...
London House
As far as we are aware the house was built around 1875 but we do have some beams in our basement that are considerably older. It is built of local Arlesey White bricks with a slate roof. Our records only go back as far as 1906 when the house was sold to the Westrope family who owned it until 1971. It was described as a ‘Dwelling House and Shop’ and as a ‘Grocers and Drapers’. The house has two numbers – 24 and 26 High Street and has two stairca...
Vine Cottage
This cottage is probably late seventeenth century, of timber frame construction. The two porches were added in the nineteenth century and the front façade was brick faced in the early twentieth century. Most of the relevant deeds to the cottage still exist. The first record is of it being sold by Sir Richard Hutchinson of Inner Temple, London to Edward Everard of Ashwell in1708. The Everards were cordwainers (shoemakers) in the village and they c...
Tower Cottage, Swan Street
... This was a tiny general stores which stocked most things. Here many Ashwell children would go, at the beginning of the 20th century, to spend their pocket money on gob stoppers, bulls eyes, pear drops and liquorice laces, whilst the adults bought biscuits and Brooke Bond tea. ...
64 High Street
In 1849 Prime King was born in Arlsey, Beds. His father, Samuel King, was a master butcher. By 1861, Prime had moved to Ashwell and set up as a butcher in premises opposite the Rose & Crown. It is believed that the building behind the shop (in Gardner’s Lane ) was the abbatoir. Prime and his wife Betsy ran the shop for over 20 years, but by 1891 Charlie F Postle had taken over the shop. The 1901 census shows Charlie Postle as a builder in Aspende...
Beams Cottage, formerly The Bull's Head
Beams Cottage was originally built in the sixteenth century. It forms part of what was once a substantial public house, The Bull’s Head, which stood on this site and that of the modern houses, numbers 47 and 49 next door. The cottage can be clearly seen in the upper picture, taken from a postcard printed in about 1905. It is on the left of the picture, with what seems to be a handcart parked outside. The Bull’s Head was opened in 1667 in the re...
Ashwell At Home 2019
Sunday 12th May 2019 11am to 5pm Yes this is the date for Ashwell at Home in 2019. It is right in the middle of the Ashwell Music Festival and we have many wonderful new things to do along with many of the familiar attractions that you all love. Creative Ashwell is the theme this year. Find out more at: https://www.ashwellathome.org.uk/ Sunday 14th May 2017 was a very successful day. The weather contributed a lot, it was probably the warmest ‘Ashw...
Byron Remembers
... Forresters Cottage on the High Street is a terrace of three cottages in 2011 but as Byron remembers there were 5 in the 1940’s and probably 6 before that. ...
22 High Street
In 1854 Thomas William Westrope married Catherine Russel in Shoreditch. By 1864 he had already moved to Ashwell and opened a grocers shop. Richard V E westrope was born in 1864 and worked in his fathers shop. In 1892 he married Martha Victoria Hall of Steeple Morden. In 1895 Charles Hall Westrope was born. The 1901 census shows us that Thomas William had retired and Richard V E was running the shop which was a grocers and drapers.He had the shop ...
32 High Street
... grant boughton I renovated the old chemist shop in 1984 it became Grant Boughton estate agents . I sold business at the end of 1987.. For a while I lived in the flat above. ...
8 The Rickyard
The inscription over the front door, Pax et Bonum, means ‘Peace and Goodwill’. It appears on many of the houses in the oldest port of Assisi in Italy because it was a favourite greeting of St Francis of Assisi. The eight houses which constitute The Rickyard were built in 1976 and these simple, unfussy designs go well with the old houses of Ashwell, without trying to mimic them. The land they were built on was part of Dixies Farm (behind you in B...
The Manse
In February 1850 there was a disastrous fire in this part of Ashwell and the Manse was built in the next few years, along with various other Victorian buildings nearby. There is a conveyance dated 1875, by which a parcel of land on ‘Limekiln Lane and Baldock Road’ was transferred from one group of trustees of the Ashwell Meeting House to another, and we assume the house was built at around this time. The original building would have been mor...
Ashwell Museum
The building started life in about 1500 as a shop in the market place. It had two rooms, with the upper one reached by a ladder. It has a king post roof (you can go in to see it), which is rather grand for such a small building. So who was the first owner? Look for the row of peg holes below the window, where the shutter hinged down to form an outside table to display the wares. It was known as the Town House. Churchwardens, Parish Constables...
Ashwell Cottage Garden
“The best cottage garden I have ever seen.” John Betjeman in The Spectator. This cottage garden was originally the site of three old cottages inhabited at least until the 1920s. They fell into disrepair and were demolished. Subsequently the site was turned into a garden by Albert Skerman and his wife, Alice, who were tenants of Swan Cottage on the corner. Albert worked as a gardener at several large houses in the village and was not averse...
The Police House
There have been many policemen who have lived in this house, like PC Hart and PC Lazenby. My father, PC Maynard, was the last village policemen to live in this house. The house was built in the 1930s, with an extension consisting of a police office added to the left of the house in the 1950s. Before this house was built there was another police house, now destroyed, which was opposite the United Reformed Church in the High Street. People like J...
Ashwell Primary School
Ashwell Primary School was designed in 1876 and built in 1878 by a local builder called Mr Bailey. Facsimiles of some of his original drawings and plans can be seen inside the school. In April 1878 the school opened as Ashwell Board Schools, for Infants (mixed) and Girls. It cost £2,200 to build and consisted of two large classrooms, side by side, each supposedly capable of holding 100 pupils, and one smaller classroom (now the boiler house and...
The Maltings
Our building was first commissioned in 1836 by Messrs. Fordhams of Ashwell. It was one of three maltings in the village. In 1953 Fordhams was sold to Greene King, when this building became a bottle store. In 1958 Greene King sold it to Flowers Breweries Limited, who in turn were amalgamated with Whitbread in 1965. In July 1970 Whitbread Limited applied for planning permission to convert the Maltings, and adjoining Kiln, Gatehouse and Stables bl...
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