5 & 7 Church Street, Ickleton

History of The Cranny and The Nook

Listed Building:

Late C15 with late C16 alterations and C19 rebuilding. Timber- framed and plastered with low-pitched slated roof and flint and brick plinth to window height.

Blue-painted cottage with a flint lower wall, white windows, and two blue wheelie bins by the front door on a street.

5 Church Street, Ickleton ©RGL 2023

A blue door marked with the number seven stands beside a stone sphere and a plaque reading Nook and Cranny Cottage.

7 Church Street, Ickleton ©RGL 2023

These buildings were built in the C15th. One of the cottages was a bough house which was licensed to sell beer once a year on the day of the annual fair when a bough would be hung outside.

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