sps1955's photos with the keyword: 2014-12-08

From NE. Late C15 or early C16; restored and converted 1974. According to the RCHM, the high standard of carpentry suggests that the lower compartment only was used for storage and that the main rooms on the first floor were set aside for other use such as a guild hall or 'town house'; evidence survives for a first-floor entrance on the E. presumably by way of an external staircase and porch. There was formerly a lode alongside leading from the nearby River Cam, whose importance prior to the building of the railways is suggested by a complaint from nearby Fulbourn in 1806 that the lack of a bridge over a new drainage ditch deprived them of "a Road to Ditton for Coals and other Fuel [which] is an additional expense in the Carriage" [Don Crane, The highways and byways of Fulbourn (1991), p.105.] Listing: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331306 ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/vol2/pp47-65 (item 3).

From SW. C16 timber-framed cross-wing jettied to street, the surviving part of a larger building which extended to the west, with C17 brick east range at right angles; west front cased in gault brick in C19. Listing: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331305 ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/vol2/pp47-65 (item 16). The Grade II-star listing reflects the surviving internal features, illustrated at www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/vol2/plate-85 (upper picture) and www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/vol2/plate-86 (lower picture).

From SW. Dated 1887.

From SW. Converted from, probably, three early C19 cottages; the upper floor appears to be built from courses of clunch blocks alternating with courses of gault brick.

Described in the listing as a pair of early C19 cottages; plan.scambs.gov.uk/swiftlg/MediaTemp/1133136-509334.pdf suggests there were originally three, dating from c.1790-1810. There are some unusual and deliberately picturesque features, such as the glazing of the small window to the right of the door, although I suppose these may be quite recent. There was no hope of taking a photo in which the car did not appear, so I have made a feature of it.