The Croft

The Croft comprises three cottages, originally built as a single farmhouse in the late 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations dating to the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with decorative panelling. The ground storey is constructed of painted brick. It has a half-hipped thatched roof, with a stack of coursed limestone and ashlar with a brick cap on the ridge, and further stacks to the rear and right side, which are brick. The main range is one storey and attic, with a cross wing to the right. The front features three boarded doors – with the entrance to the middle cottage (No. 6) located in a lobby entry position – three ground floor casement windows added in the 20th century, and two eyebrow windows with casements. There is also one casement window in the attic. The interiors were not inspected during the listing process. Records show the building relates to the Manor of Glatton, and include an estate map by John Hausted from 1613, and an estate map for Wm Wells from 1770, both held at the Huntingdonshire Record Office.