Old Shardelowes

TL 5255 12/8 31.8.62

FULBOURN BALSHAM ROAD (West Side) No.18 (Old Shardelowes)

II

House, C15 and late C16 or early C17. C17 kitchen wing added at rear. Timber framed plaster rendered with steeply pitched plain tiled roofs with ridge stack of C17 narrow gault brick at junction of two ranges. Plan of hall and crosswing. Hall range of two storeys with two small pane casements at first floor. Doorway in original location leading to cross-passage. Crosswing has two C20 casements. Interior: The hall was originally open to the roof, but a floor and stack were inserted probably c1600. However a pair of sooted rafters survive from the earlier roof, close to the stack. The present hall roof is of substantial side purlin construction. The mortices for a wall between the hall and service room forming part of the cross-passage are visible in one beam. The joists to the service bay are unmoulded and laid flat. The inglenook hearth in the hall has probably been restored. The parlour crosswing was added or rebuilt late in C16. The roof has straight wind bracing to the clasped side purlins and a closed truss between the two bays. The kitchen wing probably added in C17 has a red brick inglenook hearth with spice and salt cupboard openings. R.C.H.M: record card

Listing NGR: TL5218155505