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GC/DOM/PD/12
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- 1956- (Creation)
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5 folders
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
97.057 - Transferred to the Archive from the Domestic Bursar's Office, 1997, with additions during clear-out of Clerk of Works office, 2000.
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The site, known as Butcher's Close, part of one of the College's ancient estates, the demesne of Mortimer's Manor, Newnham, which was given to the College by Anne Scroope in 1498, was let to William Wilkins Senior (1751-1815) on a building lease c.1800. Upon it, Wilkins built a house which became known as Newnham Cottage.
The house was subsequently altered on its north west and north east wings during the early part of the twentieth century; and converted for use as student accommodation when it was brought back under direct College control in the 1950s.
(A short architectural history of the house is supplied in RCHME, Cambridge, Volume II, pp.375-6.)
The surviving plans reflect the alterations and services in the building during the period of the College's direct management of the property in the late twentieth century.
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For the history of the estate see the Registrum Magnum pp.184-191 and the Estates Chronicle, pp.24-30. For deeds to the estate see RM XIII.