Description

TL 5255 FULBOURN HOME END
(West Side)

12/21 No.2 (The Old House)
31.8.62 (formerly listed as
Old House)

II

House of C15 origins but almost completely rebuilt in two
building periods in C17. Restored c1965. There is a small
C17-C18 wing to the rear. The main range to the south is early
C17. Timber framed, plaster rendered with a half-hipped, tiled
roof with tall red brick ridge stack of four grouped shafts on
rectangular base. Two storeys with the gable end to the road
jettied. Two C19 hung sashes to the gable end and four to the
side elevation. The adjoining range to the north is mid C17 but
replaced an open-hall. Timber framed, rendered with half-hipped
tiled roof. Two storeys with the first floor jettied and the
jetty beam boxed. One hung sash of sixteen panes to each
storey. Doorway possibly on side of original entry to
cross-passage. Interior: The plan is of an open-hall with a
parlour crosswing added or rebuilt in early C17. The open-hall
would itself have been rebuilt probably mid C17. There are two
pairs of smoke blackened rafters surviving in the roof. The
parlour crosswing has a queen post roof with paired wind
bracing. There are abutting inglenook hearths and exposed
joists, laid flat and unmoulded, in the parlour crosswing.
R.C.H.M: record card

Listing NGR: TL5214555911

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615976

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings