Description

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET
(South Side)

16/161 No. 74

GV II

House, formerly a house and butcher's shop. Late C15 with late C17 and late
C19 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered; C19 painted gault brick.
Plain tiled roofs. C17 red brick ridge stack to right of centre. Two
storeys; original hall house with cross wings raised to two storeys in late
C17 with chimney stack inserted into hall. Cross wing to west extended at
the same time to south linking main range to C16 industrial building,
inserting two chimney stacks and converting part of the building to kitchen
and service rooms. East wing extended to south in C19 for staircase, passage
cut through main stack to entrance, and alterations made for a shop with
single storey flat roofed extension between the wings; large three-light
shop window flanked by glazed-panelled house and shop doors and two
sixteen-paned hung sash windows. Four first floor twelve-paned hung sash
windows. Late C19 brick facing to C17 cartway to left hand with double
boarded doors and segmental brick arch and twelve-paned hung sash window
above. Fire rings attached to cornice in rear elevation. Interior: Late
C17 cornice and chimney piece to first floor room. Crown post roof to east
cross wing, exposed timber-frame and floor frame. C16 industrial building
originally with two two-bayed barns flanking two floored central bays, with
side purlin wind braced roof, was possibly used for coopering.

Millicent, R Map of Linton, 1600. Pembroke College
Wherry, G W Fire Hooks and Rings, Vol. XII, p235 P.C.A.S.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951

Listing NGR: TL5628746804

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456271

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair