50, High Street

No 50 on High Street in Cherry Hinton is a house dating from the early 17th century, which was extended and remodeled in the late 17th century or early 18th century. The building is faced in brick from the late 19th century, with a timber frame covered in Flemish and stretcher bond gault brick, and a random bond red brick gable end on the rear wing. The roof is covered with asbestos tiles and has gabled ends, with brick stacks at the axial and gable ends.

The original front range has a three-room plan, featuring a central hall and a parlour on the right, both heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, with a smaller unheated service room on the left. In the late 17th or early 18th century, a staircase was added in what was likely the entrance lobby in front of the axial stack. The service room was divided into two smaller rooms, and a kitchen wing with a gable end stack was constructed behind the service end. The house was refaced in brick in the late 19th century.

The exterior is one storey and an attic with an asymmetrical three-window west front. It features 19th-century four, six, and eight-pane casements, and two flush panel doors set in cambered brick arch openings. There is a gabled dormer to the left of the center with a 19th-century horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars, and a similar dormer at the rear to the left, along with a gable-ended wing to the right that has a later outbuilding attached. There is a flush panel door on the south side of the wing.

Inside, the hall has a boxed-in axial beam, a large fireplace with a boxed-in timber lintel, and a china cupboard with shaped shelves. The parlour features a chamfered axial beam with cyma stops, a two-panel door, and a 20th-century chimneypiece. The north service rooms have chamfered beams and exposed wall framing. The kitchen includes a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel. The house contains much 17th and 18th-century joinery, including plank and panel doors and a staircase with a square newel and splat balusters. The chambers are ceiled, but the wall plates, tie beams in the gable ends, and wall studding are exposed. The rear wing has a clasped purlin roof.