50 Silver Street, Godmanchester

Cottage, built c1750.

MATERIALS: Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond. Pitched roof with clay tile covering.

PLAN: The cottage is a two-storey structure, with a rectangular plan, having a single-storey extension to each of the north and south gable ends.

EXTERIOR: 50 Silver Street has a three-bay, two-storey elevation on to Silver Street and a three-bay, single-storey elevation facing west to Farm Hall. The steeply pitched roof has a clay tile covering. The walls are constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond, with a brick stack to each gable, and wrought-iron wall-ties. The east elevation has two bays of nine-pane, horizontal sliding sash windows, and those to the ground floor are vaguely camber-arched. A single-storey breakfront porch, with a lean-to clay-tiled roof, timber clad walls, and a timber-battened door sits central to the east elevation. The west elevation has two pointed-arched window openings, with gauged brick voussoirs, and timber-framed Y-tracery windows. The central pointed-arch door opening has matching voussoirs, and a timber plank and battened door. A single-storey extension was added to the north gable in the early C19, having a lean-to roof and a camber-arched window opening with a timber-framed casement window to the east elevation. The single-storey extension to the south gable end was constructed c1980, replacing an earlier lean-to extension. It has a timber-framed casement window to its south elevation, and a timber-battened stable door to its east elevation. This extension is architecturally modest and late in its date of construction, and is therefore excluded from the listing, as indicated on the map.

INTERIOR: The cottage contains four principal rooms on the ground floor: a kitchen in the modern south extension, a dining room and a sitting room in the main core of the house, and a bathroom in the north extension. The main core of the house was formerly entered through the central porch, which contains an inner door to the sitting room. To the left of the porch, a timber plank and battened door grants access to the dining room, which contains an original red brick chimney breast on the south gable end, a stable door between the dining room and the kitchen, and an integrated cupboard on the north wall. To the left of the porch is a sitting room, which contains an original red brick chimney breast on the north gable wall. Opposite the door on the west wall is a timber battened door, which grants access to a steep stair to the first floor. At the top of the stairs are two bedrooms, one to the north and one to the south, each having a blocked fireplace on their gable walls.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Outbuildings were constructed to the south-east, perpendicular to the entrance from Silver Street c1980. These lack historic or architectural interest and are therefore excluded from the listing.