Built in stages from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with substantial remodelling in 1880. The walls are of field stones and carstone, with dressings of carstone, clunch and limestone. The roof pitch is now lowered and lead covered. Of interest is the mediæval graffitti, the misericords and truncated early tomb on the wall next to the north chapel.
Now the Parish Hall, the 1848 School House bears the arms of Clare College, one of the major land-owners in the village.
Possibly the best-known timber-framed building in the village. Of 15th or 16th century construction, it fronted a courtyard enclosed by some nine other buildings prior to the 17th century.
More timber-framed buildings along Dutter End, including 3 one-time public houses, one of which has an original brew-house converted to a garage. The old Bull is now brick cased, and Jessamine Cottage has a date panel of 1673 at the base of its brick chimney-stack. Look out foir the surprising "Dolls House" tucked away in a gap
The 19th century Vicarage or Rectory is built part of white brick and part of stucco facing, in "Elizabethan" style. Kelly's Directory of 1851 called it a great ornament to the village.
15th and 16th century. Originally part of a complex which included several barns and outbuildings of which one was a substantial 5-bay aisled barn. Now only the brick pigeon house of 17th or 18th century remains. Merton College Oxford was the Lord of the Manor by the end of the mediæval period (1599) and commissioned some splendid and very accurate maps of the whole parish in 1601.
(off South-East corner of map)
The Railway Station and the one-time Sultan public house are now converted to dwellings. The railway came to
Gamlingay in 1863, and was closed 100 years later.
Originally a quarry for the carstones used to build the parish church. This is reputedly the area where compulsory archery practise was held at the time of the early Continental wars.
Some parts of this building may date from 1710, when the community was founded. The school block, with masters house in front is dated 1848. John Bunyan preached here at times, apparently riding his horse from Bedford for the occasion.
The pastor's dwelling to the Old Meeting House, a timber-framed building dated 1761. Adjacent is a pair of elevated single storey brick cottages with a plaque and date inscribed WB 1721. These dwellings are part of the Baptist Church property.
Behind the farmhouse is the large brick building that closed the courtyard of farm buildings. The farmhouse has a dated and initialled plaque SM 1670. Like the majority of early buildings in the village, the house is timber framed and rendered. The barn, now converted, dates from the late 18th century.
This is an early brick building (there were two brickfields to the west of the village until the first quarter of the 20th century), with a symmetrical 5-bay facade remodelled in the 19th century over the original front of 1688. The internal plasterwork is of very high quality. The elevations other than the front retain their 17th century character.
Largely 19th century, but probably of 18th century construction originally, some of which remains. The space in front of the public house was a market area in mediæval times and earlier in the century a rally point for the hunt. The name is a dedication to the Earls of Hardwicke, who once lived at nearby Wimpole Hall.
The First School was built largely by public subscription, in 1874, replacing an earlier church school. It once had a spire atop its tower, which local people fought to preserve in the 1980s. The contrasting decorative brickwork is of interest.
This neat and compact chapel was built in 1851 and is now owned by the school.
This triangular green was once lower than the road, and as a spring rose nearby it was usually under water, hence the name. Advantage was taken of this to soak the wheels of wagons and carts to tighten them.
There was in mediæval times a farm of this name on the site and the street was once called Cock Street. The present timber-framed building is of the late 16th to 17th century. The plasterwork on the east end displays, within a small oval, the convivial symbols of a flask, corkscrew and pipe amongst others.
This is of the same date as The Cock, being the relocated dwelling of the Avenelle family. the early Lords of the Manor, whose house was at the extreme east end of the village.
Originally of the 17th century, the house was near to a public house of the same name and is part of a complex of buildings, but was considerably altered in the 19th century. Its name was changed to Charnocks House by its then owner, Miss Orlebar, sister of Flt. Lt. Orlebar of the successful Schneider Trophy flying-boat team in 1931. There is a monumnet to several members of the Orlebar family in the parish church.
This timber-framed house appears to be of the first half of 17th century, even though a roundel on the street gives a date and an inscription of MSIS 1712.
The handsome almshouses were the gift of a benefactor who owned Woodbury Hall. He is commemorated in a decorative plaque of 1665 when they were built for poor widows of good character. At the east end is a former chapel of the early 18th century. The outbuildings to the rear are relatively modern.
(Approx one kilometre West-North-West of the village)
A name that describes the marshy ground in this depression, now a nature research and Site of Scientific
Interest. The building opposite was once the Green Man public house, and close by was another public house,
the White Horse.
(off West side of the map)
Probably built as a ruin, this folly has lost some upper brickwork since it was erected for Sir George Downing
about 1712 on the boundary of Gamlingay Park. Nothing else remains of the house and grounds but a few earthworks.
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