2 Station Road

A bungalow that stands on part of an ancient enclosure, which was owned by the Wimpole Estate. In the later 19th Century and 20th Century this land was let as garden land often in association with the five Town Houses on the opposite side of the road, which today are three cottages and Nos 5, 7 & 9 Station Road.

The ancient enclosure is shown on the Enclosure Map 1808-1817 and has been marked Gardens. This is for identification and it is not known when it became allotment or gardens. On the Tithe Map 1839 it is the plot, just south of the Church, number 22.

This land was included in the abortive auction sales of the Wimpole Estate in 1891 and 1892, but did not sell.

At the final dispersal sale by Lord Robartes in 1911 the Town Houses with gardens opposite were Lot 8 and described as “Attractive Cottage Property containing a block of five cottages, stud and plaster built and thatched, each cottage contains living room, kitchen and two bedrooms. Included in this Lot and situate on the opposite side of the road are large garden plots, no 148 on Plan, with outbuildings comprising barns and pigstyes”.  Extracts from both the 1892 and 1911 Sale particulars are reproduced below, including location maps.

The purchaser in 1911 was Walter Charter, a builder of 38 Cherryhinton Road, who was the grandson of Charles Charter who had lived in Hay Street and left Steeple in 1871 to live in Chesterton, Cambridge.

The land was later acquired by David Hitch, who sold it as four separate building plots in 1978.

This northern most plot was acquired by by a builder and developer, who built the bungalow and lived here and later sold to Peter and Patricia Bigley.

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Plots as numbered on the Tithe Map 1839 below