Mowbrays

TL 4843 ICKLETON CHURCH STREET (North side) 21/226 No. 18 (Mowbrays) 22.11.67 GV II* Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16, with late C17 rebuilding and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered; red brick. Plain tiled roofs. Ridge stack to right had; main ridge stack with two diagonal shafts dated 1690 - scratched on plasters, and tall rear stack to right hand. Two storeys. Original hall rebuilt c.1690 flanked by two lower unequal cross wings originally jettied, extended to west by one storey and attic kitchen range, and two storey early C16 wing jettied originally on three sides to the east. West cross wing with one casement and one first floor three-light horizontal sliding sash window; main range with moulded wooden eaves cornice, moulded brick band between floors and plinth; C19 door and doorcase to left hand, two ground floor and two first floor recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows with gauged brick arches. East cross wing with two large twelve-paned hung sash windows to east wing. Plaster panelin north elevation restored (1968) and plaster cast made of original frieze. East wind plastered jetty joists with two corner braces to enriched carved posts. Interior: Rooms to main range and east cross wing with late C17 cornices and C18 panelling of two heights forming window seats in main rooms, chimney stack rebuilt for C19 passage at ground floor and panelling refitted. C17 refitted oak and pine panelling. Bolection moulded chimney piece; C18 closed string staircase. Mowbrays RCHM report 1949. One of the manors of Ickleton, owned by Clare Hall Cambridge from 1819. RCHM Report 1949 VCH Vol. VI p.235

Listing NGR: TL4946743820