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Fordham
House, formerly the vicarage c1830.
Barn and warehouse, an integral unit, situated on the bank of the river Snailwell at the highest navigation point. Late C16.
Six, timber framed bays, weatherboarded. Red pantile roof, rafters renewed. Two end bays to south, originally two storeyed with two mullioned windows in west elevation. Peg holes on studs for nesting boxes indicate that the first floor was used as a dovehouse at some time. Roof to north sealed in for modern workshop
House, originally an inn. Early to mid C19.
Flint and clunch walls plastered with brick quoins painted. Hipped slate roofs. Two storeys, double pile plan, rear of building possibly earlier. Three symmetrical bays. Two rear stacks.
Three first floor sixteen paned hung sash windows recessed in cambered, plastered arches. Two larger ground floor windows. Door with four raised and fielded panels; elliptical fanlight with glazing bars.
Parish church noted for its very fine late C13 and early C14 first floor chapel and undercroft serving also as a north porch entrance, restored in 1864.
Originally the mill house, late C18.
Local brick, painted; slate roofs. End stacks. L plan, two storeys with symmetrical three "bay" facade facing north. Three first floor recessed sixteen paned hung sash windows, two similar ground floor windows in segmental brick arches. Central round headed arch with fanlight and glazing bars. Replacement panelled "door".
The mill possibly stood on one of the two sites mentioned in Domesday.
Small country house mid C18 rebuilt from an earlier mansion c1710 on the site of the Gilbertine priory.
Materials from the earlier building are believed to have been reused, a painted panel in the over mantel of the entrance hall chimney pieced epicts the eleven bay facade of the original house. William Cole records the house being built c1760 for William Metcalf.





