109, High Street

TL 5248 GREAT ABINGTON HIGH STREET (South-East Side)

11/12 No. 109

GV II

Cottage. C15 with mid C16 alterations, converted to two cottages in C19; rear wing 1985. Timber-frame plastered and exposed to street elevation. Thatched roof. Red brick ridge stack and exposed side walls of chimney with reused late C14 clunch carved with mollets of the De Vere's and a frieze with cusped tracery. One storey and attic. Four ground floor casement windows and one plain tiled dormer window. Two original windows and doorway sealed. Main entrance in rear wing. Interior: Three unit plan, substantial timber-frame with interrupted tie beam to north gable with cross passage behind the C16 stack (infilled by C18 or C19 hearth), with original street entrance sealed. Two original floored bays at either end with axially laid square sectioned joists, sealed ground floor windows and evidence at first floor for gable windows. Two bay open hall with display truss removed for C16 roll-moulded ceiling beams. Hearth with inglenook partly relined and with reused late C14 clunch jambs originally an archway of two chamfered orders. Smoke blackened collar rafter roof with windbraces from principal rafters.

Map. Gt. Abington 1687, C.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL5320048654