2, Old Great North Road

WATER NEWTON OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD TL 1097 (North Side) 12/159 No. 2 25.9.51 GV II

House formerly a farmhouse and inn. Early Mid C18 with C19 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Two storeys with attics, L-plan with lean-to in angle and lower range to north. Parapet gables with chamfered copings and end stacks each with two ashlar shafts; moulded corbels continued as moulded wooden eaves cornices with modillions; ashlar band between floors. C19 gabled open porch and glazed panelled door, two large ground floor and three first floor sixteen-paned recessed hung sash windows with C19 chamfered lintels. C17 windows in side elevation possibly reused from the hall demolished in c.1730. Interior: Staircase, early C18 with moulded string and rails, turned balusters and square newels with ball finials. The farmhouse was formerly an inn c.1750.

V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p230 R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p288

Listing NGR: TL1087597203