Editing Ickleton (section)

====Brays====
In 1279 John le Bray held land at Ickleton, and in 1302 the same or a later John le Bray held land at Ickleton of the Honour of Boulogne.  By 1346 the holding had passed to a John Sawston but it was still called Brays manor. It then passed through different owners and the record of succession is incomplete until 1523. In 1604 a member of the Crudd family (see ''Mowbrays'', below) bought much of the land, and by 1704 Brays and Mowbrays manors were owned by the same Thomas Crudd. He died unmarried in 1714, leaving both manors to the Hanchett family, into which two of his sisters had married. In the inclosure of 1814 Samuel Hanchett was allotted {{convert|106|acre}}. Brays stayed in the Hanchett family until it was sold in 1867. Robert Herbert (see ''Caldress or Caldrees'', above) bought part of the land but sold much of it in 1873.<ref name=VCH/>

There was a messuage with Brays manor in 1279, but by 1545 the house on the site had gone. By 1730 the house for the manor was Little Farm, east of the churchyard. This was later combined with the house next door to form Norman Hall, which in 1867 was sold and ceased to be a farmhouse. The oldest part of Norman Hall is not Norman at all but a 15th-century timber-framed [[Hall house|medieval hall]] with a cross-wing.<ref name=VCH/> It was altered in the 16th century and added to in the 18th and 19th centuries.<ref name=EH-Norman>{{NHLE |num= 1164925 |desc=Norman Hall |date=17 December 1896 |accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref> The exterior is finished with a combination of flint, brick and 18th-century [[pargetting]].<ref name=EH-Norman/>