- Screen Colours:
- Normal
- Black & Yellow
Whepstead Workhouse or Workhouse Cottages were located at the bottom of Church Hill. They seem to have been a row of cottages where families could remain together. We don't yet know when the workhouse opened but we know that families were living there in Victorian times:
1843 Tithe Map. Bass, Hardy and others.
1881 Census
59. Old Workhouse. Willliam and Naomi Button and 4 children
60 Hall Cottage. Henry and Sarah Button and nephew Henry Hardgrave 11.
61. Old Workhouse. Andrew and Eliza Byatt and 3 children.
62. Old Workhouse. Harry and Ellen Rolfe and 5 children.
63. Walter and Sarah Hurrell and 4 children
The property was deliberately destroyed by fire in 1962.