Description

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET 16/134 Nos. 79 and 81 and 22.11.67 Nos. 1 and 3 Coles Lane (formerly listed as Nos 3 and 5) GV II*

House divided into four dwellings. Early C16 with late C17 and C18 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered with C20 pargetted panels replacing bolection moulded late C17 pargetted panels in front elevation. Painted brick plinth. Large red brick ridge stack and rebuilt ridge stack to rear. Plain tile roofs hipped to east and rear stair turret. Two storeys with cellars, L-plan, original building with continuous jetty to south and east with deeply chamfered corner post (qv Guildhall), with some defaced carved ornament; bracket with carved head and jewelled decoration to west end of jetty. Late C17 modillioned eaves cornice to south elevation. Main entrance (No. 81) approached by brick and stone steps, and entrance to west both with C18 panelled doors. One ground floor twelve-paned hung sash window and one canted oriel window with hung sashes. Two first floor cross-framed windows with casements. Rear wing (Nos. 1 and 3 Coles Lane), two storeys with four first floor and four ground flush-framed twelve-paned hung sash windows of various sizes. Two doors; C18 six-panelled door, and C19 flush-panelled door. Interior of No. 81: Bolection moulded two-panelled late C17 doors with original hinges, some early C18 panelling forming partition walls. Staircase with central newel post. Home of Robert Cole corn chandler and cousin of Wm Cole the antiquary in 1725, first purchased by the Cole family 1675.

R.C.H.M. Report 1951 Palmer, W.M. The Antiquities of Linton, 1913 CC Stevens, R.L. Linton P.C.Pubs 1982, p55

Listing NGR: TL5620346834

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