sps1955's photos with the keyword: Guildhall

From NE. Late C15 or early C16; restored and converted 1974. According to the RCHM, the high standard of carpentry suggests that the lower compartment only was used for storage and that the main rooms on the first floor were set aside for other use such as a guild hall or 'town house'; evidence survives for a first-floor entrance on the E. presumably by way of an external staircase and porch. There was formerly a lode alongside leading from the nearby River Cam, whose importance prior to the building of the railways is suggested by a complaint from nearby Fulbourn in 1806 that the lack of a bridge over a new drainage ditch deprived them of "a Road to Ditton for Coals and other Fuel [which] is an additional expense in the Carriage" [Don Crane, The highways and byways of Fulbourn (1991), p.105.] Listing: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331306 ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/vol2/pp47-65 (item 3).

From SE. c.1523; late C17 ridge stack to left-hand range and side stack on the right. "In 1507 Nicholas Wickham the parish priest left two marks towards making a new guildhall; the building was nearly complete in 1523. After the suppression of the guilds in 1547 it was used as the Town House; in 1697 it became a private house": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331166 .

c.1523; the original entrance, in the second bay from the left, has been replaced by a window; three of the other ground-floor windows with moulded mullions are original. "In 1507 Nicholas Wickham the parish priest left two marks towards making a new guildhall; the building was nearly complete in 1523. After the suppression of the guilds in 1547 it was used as the Town House; in 1697 it became a private house": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331166 . The churchyard gates are separately listed Grade II: "Cast iron piers, panelled with moulded caps and water leaf finials": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127695 .