Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse, now Nos. 4 and 6 Mill Way, dates to approximately 1452, with significant additions and alterations in the 17th and later centuries. The house is timber-framed, with rendered and red brick sections, and has tiled roofs with internal and side stacks.

Originally a 15th-century house of a single north-south range of four bays, it may have had two wings at the south east and north east. In the 17th century, additions were made to the east side, which is now the principal elevation. Two storeys and cellars are present. The 15th-century east facade is largely obscured by later additions. The central section of the east facade is red brick, with a stack featuring offsets and three diagonally set shafts, which have been repaired. A 19th-century entrance was inserted into the brickwork beside this stack. An additional 17th-century brick section adjoins it to the right. The window openings are mostly 19th and 21st century, although some 17th-century square-headed drip moulds remain, now blocked or altered. A timber-framed crosswing at the south east, tiled and of 15th-century origin, was altered in the 17th and 19th centuries. The rear of the property contains the original 15th-century manor house range. The interior structure is substantially intact, although little of the original timber framing is visible, most details date to around 1840. The original 15th-century house had a two-bay open hall with a clunch side stack, now internal. A gallery, noted by Cole, was once located at the south end above the cross-passage, and a solar was situated at the north end. The hall was floored in the 17th century. Some framing is visible in partition walls, and in the plate, with its hollow moulding, at first floor level. The house has always had cellars; the joists within are original. An arched feature over a 15th-century sewer is formed by the clunch base of the original side stack. A later brick-lined drain leads from the cellar. The site is moated. The manor was acquired by Kings College Cambridge in 1452 and has remained College property.