Description

TL 65 SW BRINKLEY HIGH STREET
(South Side)

9/36 The Cottage
7.4.82

II

House with late mediaeval open hall, C16 inserted stack and two
storey parlour extension to south-west. North-east bay,
possibly original service bay, rebuilt in late C17 or early
C18. Local red brick gable stacks late C17 or early C18,
internal stack also partly rebuilt in similar red brick. Timber
frame plastered; half hipped slate roof. One storey and attic.
Two gabled dormer windows. Two garden casement windows and one
four-light casement window. Six-flush-panelled and glazed
door. Interior. Timber frame of mediaeval hall remains in three
walls with almost complete smoke-blackened collar rafter roof.
Wall frames and floor frame of C16 addition exposed; wide cross-
passage behind inserted stack. Floors to hall and service rooms
possibly late C17 or C18 insertions. The house was formerly on
the green before the enclosure.
RCHM (Cambs. notes), 1952.
L. & R.M. Taylor, Brinkley Recollections.

Listing NGR: TL6287954727

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616672

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