Fulbourn Manor is a Grade II listed building in the English county of Cambridgeshire [1] and the sole surviving manor of the Five Manors of Fulbourn.
Fulbourn Manor is a Grade II listed building in the English county of Cambridgeshire [1] and the sole surviving manor of the Five Manors of Fulbourn.
The manor was built in 1788 [2] or maybe earlier. An account from 1495 states that Richard Berkeley and his wife Anne Berkeley settled a debt of 1,000 marks with four manors of Fulbourn, which were stated as Zouches, Manners, Shardelowes and Fulbourn. [3]
It was largely rebuilt around 1910 by Dudley Newman. [4] Reconstruction preserved part of the 18th-century building.
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