13, Toft Lane

TL 5457 13/123

GREAT WILBRAHAM TOFT LANE (South East Side) No 13

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Cottage, dated 1685 in original plaster numerals to front wall. Later alterations include addition of narrow bay to road end. C20 fenestration and added stack. Timber framed, plastered with steeply pitched plain tiled roof with original ridge stack part rebuilt. End stack added C19. A good example of the typical original lobby entry and three bay plan. Two storeys. Four windows at first floor including a small C20 window to an original closet opening opposite the stack and a C19 horizontal sliding sash. The five ground floor windows are all c1980 as is the door but the doorway is in its original location opposite the stack. Interior: There are typical large late C17 bricks to the abutting inglenook hearth each originally with a bread oven suggesting an original pair of cottages. However the absence of peg holes in the middle rail at the point opposite the stack indicates a doorway to a lobby entry and probably an original three bay lobby entry house for a single family. One ground floor room has stop chamfers to main beam and hearth lintel similar to No.79 Station Road, Fulbourn (q.v.) and St. Martins Cottage, Apthorpe Street, Fulbourn (q:v.), dated 1661. The framing is partly exposed and has straight downward bracing to the gable end wall frame. The roof is of clasped side purlin construction with carpentered rafters, but only the butt of the purlin survives. The brickwork of the inglenooks can be compared with the late C16 narrow red bricks in the end stack at Lufters, No.52 Church Street (q.v.) and those of No.22 Angle End (q.v.) dated 1741). R.C.H.M: Record card

Listing NGR: TL5483957506