Fulbourne Old Manor House

TL 5256 FULBOURN MANOR WALK (North East Side)

Fulbourn Old Manor House 11/36 (formerly listed as Fulbourn 31.8.62 Old Manor)

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House, late C16. Mainly dressed clunch with limestone quoins, and some timber framing, part exposed, and part rendered. Fieldstones to splayed plinth. C20 brick repairs in parts. Tiled roofs with one gale end parapet having original kneelers on scrolled brackets. Two original end stacks, one with limestone quoins to rectangular base with two diagonally set shafts, partly of red brick. The other is of red brick with three-linked shafts diagonally set. Plan of single range with projecting gable to left hand. Two storeys. The window openings are mostly original. One of three lights and one four lights with C20 casements at first floor. The windows have square heads and narrow moulded chamfers to the mullions. Two similar windows at ground floor with moulded drip moulds and return stops. Parts of the clunch to the surrounds have been repaired with Ketton. The original doorway is now partly blocked but has the original label. The gable end to the right hand has a pedimented tablet with the shield of arms of the Beaupre Bell family. There are two small late C16 windows in this gable end. The left hand gable end is jettied at first floor, and the jetty beam which is moulded is carried on two carved scrolled brackets of clunch. The first floor has an oriel window of wood with its original pediment and three console brackets carved with jewel ornament. The ground floor has been underbuilt. The garden front has timber framing exposed to part of the first floor and two original window openings are visible, now blocked. Two three-light windows with hollow moulded mullions. Interior: The house is in five bays including a narrower entry and stairbay. There are ovolo moulded main beams and a hearth to an upper chamber with similar mouldings. Above one ground floor hearth is another shield of arms of the Beaupre Bells. One casement has a late C17 turnil. The roof has shallow bracing between the principal rafters and the collars. R.C.H.M: record card

Listing NGR: TL5212256162