Description

TL 5256 FULBOURN MANOR WALK
(North East Side)

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

II

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616001

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair