Furtherwick House

TL 3770 10/93 10.12.73

OVER FEN END (South East Side) Nos.14 & 16 (Furtherwick House) (formerly listed as Albany House)

II

House, late C17 and C20 alterations. Local red brick, C20 rendered front wall with tiled steeply pitched roof with high end parapets on kneelers to crosswings. Stacks part rebuilt C19, to rear wall of crosswings. One has off-set with embattled upper edge. Half H-plan. Two storey hall range with two C20 metal windows, one to each storey, and off-centre doorway, possibly leading to a cross-passage. Gable ends of crosswings each have five C20 metal casements probably on the sites of the original openings. Interior: A staircase has now been inserted into the original cross-passage but the original opposing doorways remain, although the doors are later. the service and kitchen crosswing to the right hand has an inglenook hearth. There are stop chamfered main beams to the chamber over the hall. The hall, the chamber over the hall and the ground floor room to the parlour crosswing all have corner fireplaces. The roof is of staggered butt-purlin construction. Possibly associated with Dutch prisoners of war who were used for construction of the New Bedford River and who remained after peace was concluded in 1654. T. Bevis. Strangers in the Fens

Listing NGR: TL3788570690