St Martins Cottage

St. Martins Cottage is a cottage dated 1661, located on Apthorpe Street in Fulbourn. It features a timber frame with plaster rendering and a thatched roof made of long straw, topped with an original red brick ridge stack of grouped shafts. The cottage has a lobby entry and a three-bay plan, including a porch. It is one storey with attics and has two gable dormers. There are three windows on either side of the two-storey gabled and thatched porch from 1661. A small fixed light window on the gable end of the porch likely replaces an original casement. At the rear, there is a small service wing from the 18th century, probably also timber framed and rendered, featuring a chamfered main beam.

Inside, the timber framing is exposed, showcasing straight bracing. The main beams and hearth lintels are stop chamfered. The inglenook hearth includes a spice cupboard with its original door featuring butterfly hinges and a bread oven with a 19th-century patent iron door. Two upper rooms have original hearths, one of which has a stop chamfered lintel. The centre bays are supported by two raised tie beam trusses.