St Martins Cottage

TL 5156 FULBOURN APTHORPE STREET (North East Side)

10/3 No.36 (St. Martins Cottage) GV II

Cottage dated 1661 over porch with C18 and C20 extensions at the rear. Timber framed, plaster rendered with thatched roof of long straw and original red brick ridge stack of grouped shafts. Original lobby entry and three bay plan with porch. One storey and attics. Two gable dormers. Three windows, on either side of the 1661 two storey gabled and thatched porch. Small fixed light window to gable end of porch probably replacing an original casement. At the rear is a small service wing, C18, probably also timber framed and rendered with a chamfered main beam. Interior: Timber framing exposed with straight bracing. Stop chamfered main beams and hearth lintels. The inglenook hearth has a spice cupboard with original door with butterfly hinges and a bread oven with patent iron door of C19. Two upper rooms have original hearths, one with stop chamfered lintel. There are two raised tie beam trusses to the centre bays. R.C.H.M: record card V.A.G: Journal 1970-71 p.15

Listing NGR: TL5196056513