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manor-house, now divided into two houses. The 

 house is approached by a fine avenue of trees. A 

 moat to the east of it probably incloses the site of an 

 older house. The vicarage is situated to the north 

 of the church. Pentlows is a farm lying above it to 

 the south, which takes its name from a i+th-century 

 owner (see manor of Queenbury). To the west of 

 the church is a house now divided into two, which 

 was built about 1600, and was formerly the Rose and 

 Crown Inn. It is a rectangular timber-framed building 

 covered with plaster, with a projecting upper story 

 and three brick chimney stacks. The plaster in front is 

 divided into square and circular panels which are 

 decorated in low relief. Another house south of the 

 church, known as the ' Old Boys' School,' of similar 

 date, is rectangular in plan, with herringbone brick 



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of the church was used for- a school, 13 which was 

 carried on there until its removal to a building now 

 used as a bakehouse at the end of Fleece Lane. It 

 was again moved to the old house on the south of the 

 church described above, and remained there until 

 taken to its present site. There is a Congregational 

 chapel to the north-west of the church dating back in 

 origin to 1691, when Robert Billio, preacher, certi- 

 fied a place for Divine worship. 18 " There is also a 

 Wesleyan chapel to the south of the church. A fair 

 was held at Braughing within living memory, at which 

 earthenware was one of the commodities sold. 



To the south The Street is continued as Ford 

 Street. Ford Street Farm is a 1 7th-century building, 

 altered in the 1 8th century, of timber and plaster, 

 the latter being decorated with comb-work. About 



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nogging and tiled roof. It is gabled and the upper 

 story projects. In the lane called the Causeway, to 

 the south-west of the church, is another house of the 

 same date. It is of red brick and timber with a 

 plastered front with rusticated quoins in plaster, and 

 still has its original window frames and fastenings. 



The church hall at the end of the Causeway is a 

 red brick building used for a men's club and similar 

 purposes. It was built by Mr. H. Shepherd Cross 

 in 1903 in place of a Memorial Hall which he 

 had built in Ford Street in 1893 and which is 

 now converted into cottages. The public elementary 

 school was built in 1877 on a piece of ground called 

 the Orchard (see under Charities). The north chapel 



" PariihBk.,i7zo. There was a school 

 before 1710 (see V.C.H. Hern, ii, 100). 



a quarter of a mile north of Green End, on the 

 Cambridge road, is the hamlet of Hay Street." 

 Further north still lies the hamlet of Dassels. On 

 the east side of the road here is a farm-house, now 

 divided into three tenements, dating from the early 

 1 7th century. It is L-shaped in plan, and is built of 

 timber and plaster, the latter being decorated with 

 the usual combed pattern. The roofs are tiled, and 

 the shorter wing is gabled at both ends, while the 

 other is hipped. It has the remains of old chimney 

 stacks. A few of the original casements of the win- 

 dows remain. At Dassels there is a Methodist chapel 

 Bozen Green, in the north-east of the parish, seems 

 to preserve the name of Bordesdene of the Domesday 



™*y™Uk,m«cMfi, m ityi„H e m.6 71 . century (Chan. Inq. p.m. TSer 2 1 c 

 14 It » called my Street in the 17th *;). HV -L3«.zj,c 



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