15, Church Lane

This is a house dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and has plaster rendering with gault brick casing to part of the exterior, and steeply pitched tiled roofs with side stacks. The original house comprised a main range of three bays and a rear range, forming an L-shaped plan. The house is two stories high, with an additional attic to part. The front range, facing Church Lane, is partially hidden by a lean-to conservatory, and the windows are mainly mid-to-late 19th-century recessed sash windows. The rear range has a horizontal sliding sash window at first floor level and a tripartite hung sash window at ground floor level.

Inside, the main range's central bay is partially open to the roof, following the collapse of the ground floor room’s ceiling. A 19th-century staircase forms a gallery on the first floor. The roof here is of late 15th-century crown-post construction, with two-way bracing. The rear range contains a fine crown-post roof with an intact collar purlin, four-way bracing, and a square section post; the tie beam has been removed and the base of the post cut down. The collar purlin, braces, corners of the post, wall plate and middle rail, which supports the floor, feature hollow mouldings, similar to those found at Rectory Farm, Great Shelford, which is dated approximately 1330-1350. Very little of the original timber framing is visible elsewhere in the house.