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A brick building with stepped gables and a thatched roof stands beside a road where three children stand in the foreground.

Old Manor Farm, Fen Drayton, 1929 (photo L Cobbett) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Old Manor Farm, High Street, Fen Drayton

History of Old Manor Farm

Listed Building

Early C16, and early and late C17. Lead rainwater head dated 1695. Timber frame with plaster infill, C17 red brick coursed in English bond; thatched roof.

The Manor Farm House was bought by the Cambridgeshire Cottage Improvement Society in 1938 for £150. By 1959 it was a home for three families.

A brick manor house with a thatched roof and crow-stepped gable stands beside a road, with a sundial on the upper wall.

Fen Drayton manor, (MoC156/57)

A two-story house with a thatched roof, featuring timber-framed white walls and an ornate brick gable end against a blue sky.

Old Manor Farm High Street Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A weathered wooden sign reading Old Manor Farm Cottages is mounted above a black front door set into a red brick wall.

Manor Farm Cottages Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

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