Description

TL 5248 GREAT ABINGTON HIGH STREET
(West Side)

11/16 Nos. 88 and 90
(The Old Guild
House)

GV II

Cottage. C15 with C16 and C17 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with
two bays to west exposed. Thatched roof. Red brick ridge stack and stack to
west gable end. Painted plinth. One storey and attic. C20 boarded door,
eight ground floor casement windows of various sizes with glazing bars and
three plain tiled gabled dormer windows. Interior: Some timber-frame
survives of the original C15 building, rebuilt mid C16 with inserted floors;
floor to central room with roll-moulded joists and axial beam. Segmental
arched brick fire place mid to late C17. The cottage is sited on the north
side of the former road from Linton to Bourn Bridge, a stone cross marked the
cross roads in the early C19. Wm Palmer suggests the cottage was once the
guildhall.

Map. Gt. Abington 1687, C.R.O.
Palmer, W.M. 'The Neighbourhood of Hildersham', 1924

Listing NGR: TL5316748680

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596454

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014