| Description | After purchasing Abington Estate in 1800 John Mortlock made Abington Hall his principal residence until just before his death in May 1816. His Cambridge residence was Bank House, next to the new Bank building in Benet Street. After John Mortlock's death the Hall was let, subsequent Mortlock's preferring to live in Cambridge (Thomas) or Abington Lodge (Edmund John). VCH, Vol. VI, p. 6 describes the Hall in the late eighteenth century as 'a three-storey building of nine bays, in red brick with stone dressing'. There was a north porch with Roman Doric columns and a pedimented south front with a ground-level iron verandah. These features could still be seen in 2015; the hall, a Listed Building, is part of The Welding Institute, a research institute set up in 1946 in the grounds of Abington Hall and recently (2015) much extended. |