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It is a late eighteenth-century house, probably built over an older one; it faces north up the Backs; and on the south side stands on a branch of the Cam, about half-way between the King's Mill and the Newnham Mill. There was a water-door under one of the granaries, to which the barges used once to bring their loads. However, though corn still sometimes came by barge to Foster's Mill (the King's Mill) it no longer came any farther, and the Beales' business had all moved down to the station. The place was now too big for the two old Misses Beales, who still lived there, so my father bought the whole estate. And my mother took to it with enthusiasm; which was characteristically brave of her; for most mothers would have thought the situation damp, and the river both dangerous and smelly.