48 Storey's Way

48 Storey's Way is an Arts and Crafts house in west Cambridge, England, designed by M. H. Baillie Scott for Herbert Ainslie Roberts, a university administrator, and built in 1912–13.

A total of 74 individual plots of 0.25–1.0 acres were advertised; eighteen had sold by 1914 but the First World War interrupted proceedings and sales dragged on until 1932.

[1][6] The bulk of the plots were small, catering for a shift in demand towards smaller homes with fewer live-in servants.

[5] The terms of sale required houses to cost £800 or £1000 (later £1000 or £1200), depending on the size of the plot – relatively expensive for the time – and also to stand at least 30 feet from the street.

[6] The architect, M. H. Baillie Scott, though not among the founders of the Arts and Crafts movement in England, became one of its major later exponents.

[1] By the end of the 1930s it was the home of Ashley Tabrum, who was Cambridgeshire County Council's clerk for more than thirty years.

[18] The site between Storey's Lane and Madingley Road (immediately south and west of number 48) was developed as Churchill College between 1959 and 1968.

It was purchased by Churchill College,[21] who intended to divide it for student accommodation, but were persuaded of its architectural merit by the architect Diane Haigh, whom they commissioned to restore it in 1990–91, together with William Fawcett of Allies & Morrison.

The middle rail of the three-panelled, studded entrance door is carved with bunches of grapes and foliage.

[1] The interior follows a typical plan of an Arts and Crafts house, with the principal rooms having a south aspect, overlooking the rear garden, and arranged in a row.

The ceiling and frieze in the dining room by J. C. Pocock imitates 17th-century plasterwork, and features a star-like pattern with Tudor rose bosses.

[1] In addition to the main rooms, Baillie Scott's original ground-floor plan included a scullery, larder and pantry adjacent to the kitchen, an internal bicycle store accessed from the front via the left-hand door.