Newnham Grange

Newnham Grange (/ˈnjuːnəm ˈɡreɪndʒ/) is a Grade II listed house on Silver Street, Cambridge, next to the River Cam and The Backs.

The building was built in 1793 for the family of Patrick Beales, a local corn and coal merchant and twice Mayor of Cambridge.

They had the following children: Lady Maud Darwin died at the house in 1947.

The house is extensively described and illustrated in Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood, which has a chapter describing the house and flooding from the River Cam.

Lady Margaret Keynes also published a book about the house, House by the River: Newnham Grange to Darwin College[3] In 2003 a Blue Plaque commemorating Gwen Raverat and Period Piece was unveiled at Newnham Grange by Gwen's daughter Sophie Gurney, with Sophie's son William Pryor and Erasmus Darwin Barlow and his wife Biddy in attendance.