13, Toft Lane

No. 13 Toft Lane is a cottage dated 1685, marked with original plaster numerals on the front wall. It has undergone later alterations, including the addition of a narrow bay at the road end. The cottage features 20th-century windows and an added chimney stack. It is timber-framed, plastered, and has a steeply pitched plain tiled roof, with the original ridge stack partially rebuilt and an end stack added in the 19th century.

This building is a good example of the typical original lobby entry and three-bay plan, standing two storeys high. The first floor has four windows, including a small 20th-century window in an original closet opening opposite the stack and a 19th-century horizontal sliding sash. The five ground floor windows and the door were all replaced around 1980, although the doorway remains in its original location opposite the stack.

Inside, the cottage features large late 17th-century bricks in the inglenook hearth, each originally with a bread oven, suggesting it may have originally been a pair of cottages. The absence of peg holes in the middle rail opposite the stack indicates a doorway to a lobby entry, likely making it an original three-bay lobby entry house for a single family. One ground floor room has stop-chamfered main beams and a hearth lintel, similar to those found in No. 79 Station Road, Fulbourn, and St. Martins Cottage, Apthorpe Street, Fulbourn, dated 1661. The framing is partly exposed, with straight downward bracing in the gable end wall frame. The roof is constructed with clasped side purlins and carpentered rafters, although only the butt of the purlin remains. The brickwork of the inglenooks can be compared with the late 16th-century narrow red bricks in the end stack at Lufters, No. 52 Church Street, and those of No. 22 Angle End, dated 1741.