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Late C16, extended in late C17; originally 3 bays with the right-hand bay, which formerly contained the forge on the ground floor, added later. The ground-floor oriel in this bay is C19 but, according to the listing , the left-hand ground-floor oriel, partly obscured by the car, is original, as is the door surround.

Circa 1620. Formerly the Town House and an inn, according to list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1102596 , although the Town House or Gild Hall illustrated by the Victoria County History (1914) is evidently a different building. The village was formerly on the main road from Cambridge to Ware and the VCH mentions that several inns are recorded in the 15th and 16th centuries. According to the English Heritage listing, the arched head of the carriage entrance between the first and second bays is C19 . Further altered and extended c.1900, when the porch and the entrance on the far left were added; the left-hand bay window is also modern as a Victorian photo in VCH shows only an oriel window on the first floor here.

"House, at one time 3 or more dwellings. Late C17 [date 1687 above the central first-floor window], restored 1935-8 for Mrs. Berg and c.1960 by W. Weir for the National Trust": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1347377 .

Late C15 timber-framed "Wealden"-type house, originally with a full-height central hall and two-storey jettied sections each end; hall floored and chimney stack inserted c.1600; partly re-fronted in brick, the jetties being underbuilt, and divided into 3 dwellings, in C18: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1174330 .

Died aged 18. Tentatively attributed to Sir Henry Cheere in The buildings of England: Hertfordshire (1977 edn.), p.331.

The station concourse, designed by John McAslan and Partners, and completed 2012, from the NW. The façade follows the curve of the Italianate Great Northern Hotel, on the right (built to the designs of Lewis Cubitt, 1854; listing: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113244 ) whose curved plan in turn followed the former alignment of Pancras Road (whose course can be appreciated in this 1957 aerial view ). The clock tower of St Pancras station is on the far right.

From S. Almost completely rebuilt in the early C15, but in 1798 the west tower collapsed and was rebuilt further to the east within the nave, re-using old materials: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127895 .

Seen from the churchyard (i.e. from N). "Possibly originally a guildhall. Early-mid C16. Converted to a house and re-roofed in mid-late C17 and subdivided into three cottages early C19"; the existing windows and doors date from the conversion to cottages: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127894 .

From NE. Probably later C16 or early C17 but heavily remodelled in the late C19 (the windows and even the chimneys date from this remodelling, according to the listing, as presumably does the band of pargetting across the central range: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127893 ). Rather than putting the house back to a hypothetical earlier appearance, the late C19 remodelling seems to have aimed at the impression of a house that has evolved over time, and the result is a happy one, in my opinion! .

"Formerly [a] public house, probably of C17 origin but much restored and altered, principally in C20": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1164134 . Taken to record the curious arrangement of the roof!

I have often thought how picturesque this house looks when passing in the car but it proved to be difficult to photograph without risk to life and limb because of the absence of a footpath on the opposite side of a very twisty road. "Late C17 or early C18 now two dwellings. Originally dated 1738 on panel, now removed, which may be the actual date of construction. C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber frame, now exposed, plaster rendered until restored c1960. Steeply pitched plain tiled roof with the ridge stack, now removed. Two storeys. All the fenestration of six small pane windows at first floor, five at ground floor and two doorways are C20": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1164170

He was the second son of Matthew Nicholas, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - the manor of Sandon was part of the St Paul's estate. "For thirty years a citizen of London, he always had in mind (in sacred matters) God and the Church, (in the duties of life) an honest reputation, and (in financial matters) a good conscience".

From W. "Probably C17, remodelled and extended in circa late C18 or C19. Pebbledash clunch on brick and stone plinth, possibly originally timber framed": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1266122 . Named after a former owner, Edward Humphreys Green, according to Don Crane, Walks round Fulbourn (1986), p.6

Inhabited as late as the 1930s, according to Don Crane, Walks round Fulbourn (1986), p.5. Not listed.

Right-hand image from the bottom tier of the easternmost N. aisle window (the "Peace Window"). Conceived, designed and two-thirds paid for by the squire in 1919, according to the church guide, although similar (but pre-Great War) glass in the S. aisle is signed by T.F. Curtis and was made by Ward and Hughes.