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Home Farm Close, SANDY, SG19 2TX

A number of houses of similar style were built in for workers on the Tempsford estate in the latter part of the 19th century. They are all dated, and have the Stuart crest and motto on the front. (See Image]). This row are dated 1874.

Tempsford village was cut in half by the realignment of the A1 trunk road in 1962. The entrance to the original Tempsford Hall is now in Church End, however, the original hall was destroyed by fire in 1898. This entrance, from Station Road, is to the new hall, built 1903, and now used as head office of the construction company Kier.

Tempsford village, and Station Road in particular, is lined by buildings of all styles and ages, from very recent to the 16th century. The red brick houses here are part of a small development of 4 and 5-bedroom detached houses which were built in the 1980s.

The white house is the former Black Horse pub which closed in 1967.

There are no shops, pubs or school in Tempsford today, though this was not always the case. Here, and much altered, the pink building, built 1860s, was the village shop, which opened in 1905 and closed in 1989. The front garden area of white house is the site of The Black Horse pub dating back to 1837. The present house, built in 1933, was also The Black Horse pub, in which the last pint was pulled in 1967. The yellow brick cottages beyond were the home and premises of the village blacksmith, which was in business from the late 19th century into the 1960s.

Looking west past a barn at Stonebridge Farm towards the A1 junction. The wall on the left is on the boundary of the grounds of Tempsford Hall.

Completed in 1804 with a Sunday School room added in 1878, this is the oldest Methodist Chapel in the St Neots area and is still in use with services every Sunday.