I dug a bit into this, because of course 13 Chesterton Road was a building I went past very often in my two years living at #49. I’m a bit dubious about the link; the house in the book is definitely outside Cambridge (“Castleford”) and I don’t get the sense that it’s on a corner – it ‘feels’ more like a house in the middle of a block. The model for the Victorian house is pretty definitely the Mill House at Great Shelford, but it seems to have escaped the fate of being divided into flats.
I dug a bit into this, because of course 13 Chesterton Road was a building I went past very often in my two years living at #49. I’m a bit dubious about the link; the house in the book is definitely outside Cambridge (“Castleford”) and I don’t get the sense that it’s on a corner – it ‘feels’ more like a house in the middle of a block. The model for the Victorian house is pretty definitely the Mill House at Great Shelford, but it seems to have escaped the fate of being divided into flats.