Fulbourn - Former Church School and school house 2012-01-23

Built on land given by Charles Watson Townley of Fulbourn Manor in 1858-9, and designed by Richard Reynolds Rowe; initially consisting of a single mixed schoolroom, it was enlarged in 1871-2, creating separate boys' and girls' schoolrooms; the school house on the right was built at the same time ( www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp157-158 ; for the extension, see www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/7330398668/ ). Following the closure of a school associated with the chapel, the village ratepayers petitioned for a school board, which was established in 1879 and built a new school on a site behind the church school, just visible in the background on the left. Part of the church school was transferred to the board school in 1883, and the two schools were amalgamated in 1955. More recently the church school building was used as a library, but this has now moved to new premises and the former school was in 2012 the subject of a planning application for domestic conversion; in the event, this was not carried out and the building was refurbished in 2014 to be used as an annexe to the current village school.

The cupola to the right of the lamp post belongs to a recent housing development on a former farmyard.