1 And 2, High Street

TL 3268-3368 FEN DRAYTON HIGH STREET (West Side)

13/75 Nos. 1 and 2 (formerly 31.8.62 listed as The Old Manor House) GV II

Farmhouse, now two dwellings. Early C16, and early and late C17. Lead rainwater head dated 1695. Timber frame with plaster infill, C17 red brick coursed in English bond; thatched roof. Two storeys and attics, slightly projecting earlier wing to left hand of jettied hall range. Re-roofed and brick gables added c.1695. Brick plinth. Gables similar, one to south complete, north gable altered by later building, each parapet with eleven gabled steps and projecting stacks with two offsets and pair of ogee-headed recesses below diagonally set grouped shafts, at their base were small carved brick horse heads one of which survives on north gable stack. One two-light, and two three-light transomed ground floor casement windows with mullioned side lights to centre window; three first floor three-light casement windows with similar mullioned side lights to centre window; two late C17 facade dormer windows with casement lights. Square sundial plaque in south gable wall. Other C17 examples of stepped parapet gables are found in the fen area of Cambridgeshire. R.C.H.M. (Cambs notes), 1950.

Listing NGR: TL3389268344