Abington Pottery

Abington Pottery is a house that dates from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations made in the mid to late 16th century and late 18th century or early 19th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring plain tiled roofs. The building has a red brick ridge stack on the left side and an external stack on the right gable. The open hall includes a two-storey bay to the northwest and a cross wing to the southeast, which originally jutted out over the street. There is a boarded door on the right side, and the ground floor has four casement windows, three of which have transomed lights and two-centred wooden heads. There is also one similar window in the first floor of the cross wing and one original six-light moulded mullioned window.

Inside, the cross wing consists of three timber-framed bays with a crown post roof and internal partitions, featuring one original three-centred arched door head. There is a cross passage behind an inserted hearth, with original external entrances that are now blocked. The open hall has two timber-framed bays with a smoke-blackened, wind-braced side purlin roof, showing evidence of an earlier floor and partition in the northwestern bay. An inserted stack has a partly sealed hearth and inserted roll-moulded ceiling beams. A closed truss in the northwest of the hall has no apparent entry to two rooms in the end bay. There is a late 16th century or early 17th century hearth in the northwest ground floor room, with a staircase in the outshut to the rear. Traces of vermilion paint can be seen on the bricks and some timbers. The house contains two 17th century doors, one with bolection moulded panels and one that is panelled.

The house was converted into three dwellings around 1830 and was renovated by the Cambridge Cottage Improvement Society in 1934. It became a pottery in 1964.