For shopping and businesses in this street, visit WoodbridgeTownGuide.co.uk
Cumberland Street was apparently named after the Duke of Cumberland. Many of Woodbridge's officials and business people had their homes in the street and the buildings all remain today in what is, architecturally, one of Woodbridge's finest streets (in my opinion!).
Photos from April 2007
65. Council floral display at the 'start' of Cumberland Street
66. Pink and blue cottages, Cumberland Street
67. What seems to be previously two cottages made into one house
68. Headquarters office of Notcutts garden centre company
69. Timber-framed cottage.
70. Three-storey grey brick house, by the junction of Station Road and Cumberland Street
71. Victorian villas
72. The Red House, recently renovated
73. The Clock House, recently renovated
74. The old (Victorian) Fire Station
75. Number 47 Cumberland Street
76. Newby House
77. Rendered-wall cottages - the ugly No Entry roadsign has been 'airbrushed' out
78. Brook House, with Elizabethan chimney
79. Townley House, left, and Linden House, right
80. Number 30
82. Redbrick house that once included a shop-window, to the left of the door
83. The Hermitage, splendid jettied house with an interesting mix of fenestration
84. Barton's Cottage, left, and The Manor House
85. The fine-cased door of The Manor House
86. Second cottage (double-fronted) is Minstrel Cottage, once the home (and workshop?) of bookbinder, George Fox.
The next building, darker cream and now incorporating an insurance broker's office, was once The Wellington public house.
87. Recently renovated and extended house, once the premises of a monumental mason
88. Gordon House
89. Cumberland House, a 'Georgianized' Tudor house (information)
Photos from 2005...
Barton's Cottage,
The Hermitage and
Manor House, in 2005.
Cottages opposite The Hermitage and Manor House, in 2005. The white one used to be bookbinders, George Fox.
the cream buildings beyond, were once the Wellington Inn.
Photos from 1998 and 2001
Cumberland house (information)
Cumberland House pedimented door case.
Barton's Cottage (Bernard Barton was a Quaker, and a poet)
Hermitage and Manor house, on the left.