Dobbins Cottage

TL 17 NW OLD WESTON MAIN STREET (South East side)

7/79 Dobbins Cottage 28.1.58 formerly listed as Town Farm

II

House formerly a farmhouse. Early C17, possibly incorporating the timber-frame of an earlier building. Timber-framed and plastered with stone and brick plinth painted and plastered. Plain tiled roofs. Large central red brick ridge stack with sawtooth brick and moulded brick cornice, side stack to right hand with similar details both with rebuilt shafts, side stack to left hand rebuilt with tall C19 brick shaft. Two storeys half H-plan with double hall forming main range with service cross wing to left hand and parlour cross wing to right hand formerly with rear staircase. Main lobby entrance with glazed four-panelled door; three ground floor and four first floor nine-paned hung sash windows with side lights and one ground floor casement window. Interior: Exposed timber-frame with wind braces to closed truss possibly indicating an earlier frame, and some reused timbers. Stop chamfered ceiling beams and floor joists of light scantling. Ogee-moulded door frame and ovolo-mullioned two-light window sealed above entrance. Coved plastered ceilings. Chimneys altered, one large open hearth with plain brick jambs partly rebuilt after a fire. Original roof. The house was formerly known as Town Farmhouse.

RCHM: Huntingdonshire p290

Listing NGR: TL1011177535