Description

TL 65 SW BRINKLEY HIGH STREET
(South Side)

9/38 Cricket Field
Cottage

GV II

House, part of high quality late C15 timber framed house of
possible three unit plan. Early C17 local red brick stack
replacing demolished bays of hall and service rooms to
south-east. Hall chamber floor inserted in early C17. Timber
frame plastered; plain tile and pantile roof hipped with gablet
to left hand. External gable stack to left hand with grouped
diagonal shafts; gable wall and stack to right hand with exposed
roof timbers. One storey and attic. Fragment of moulded eaves
cornice. Two flat roofed casement dormer windows, three ground
floor casement windows. Boarded entrance door with rectangular
fanlight. Interior. Surviving timber frame walls complete with
deeply moulded ceiling beams to parlour; ovolo moulded ceiling
beams to hall with original moulded cornice exposed at first
floor to open hall. Butt-purlin roof. The building was
formerly on the green before the enclosure.
RCHM (Cambs. notes), 1952.
L. & R.M. Taylor, Brinkley Recollections, 1983. CC.

Listing NGR: TL6306054638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419298

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)