Linton House

Linton House is a house originally built as an open hall around 1500, extended to the south in the late 16th century. A small kitchen or bakehouse wing was added to the rear in the late 18th century. The house is timber-framed with rendered infill and has a thatched roof covered in reed, with a ridge stack made of red and yellow brick dating to around 1600.

The original design was of four bays, with a cross-passage on the left-hand side, which was converted to a lobby-entry plan around 1600. The house has two storeys, with three windows in a Tudoresque style, featuring arched top panes, on both the first and ground floors, dating to the late 19th century. The doors are 20th-century replacements but are in their original locations. A blocked doorway is visible in the left-hand gable end, leading to what was originally the service end, and at the rear is an original hall window with five diamond mullions, now serving a small closet alongside the chimney stack.

A two-bay addition to the right-hand side is also timber-framed and thatched, with a brick stack contemporary with the extension and similar in style to the stack inserted into the original open hall. The late 18th-century addition at the rear is built of brick, is single-storey, and has a tiled roof with an end stack.

Inside, the timber framing is substantial and largely intact, except for a missing tie beam and part of the front wall plate. The roof is of crown-post construction in four bays and five trusses. The crown posts are unmoulded and feature cranked bracing from the crown posts to the collar purlin. There’s no smoke blackening evident, but the display truss has been damaged by the insertion of the stack. A closed truss is located in the roof between the parlour end of the hall house and the two-bay addition, indicating the roof did not extend beyond that point. The posts of each truss are thickened at the heads and feature similar cranked bracing to the tie beams. The tie beams have stop chamfers. On the first floor, there are original shutter grooves to several blocked window openings. An original partition wall divides the hall and service bay, retaining two service doorway openings into the cross-passage. Two 20th-century doorways mark the original back and front entries to the cross-passage. A blocked doorway in the gable end wall of the service bay retains its original arched head.

Features added around 1600 include an inglenook, now blocked or removed, a smaller hearth in the parlour, and an upper chamber. The two-bay extension includes an inglenook and a smaller hearth in the room above with ceiling beams featuring stop chamfers dating to around 1600.