Chandlers Chaundlers

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET (North Side)

16/136 Nos. 91 and 93 (Chaundlers and (Chandlers) (formerly listed 29.10.55 as Nos 1 and 4 Chandlers GV II* Cottages)

Hall house divided as two dwellings. Early C15 with C17 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plaster rendered with some original pargetted panels in street elevation, and some exposed timber-frame. Plain tile roofs. Main hall range of one storey and attic flanked by two storeyed cross wings to east and west with a cellar to east. Cross wing to west with crown post roof and original entrance to cross passage with defaced carved four-centre arched wooden door head and jetty partly underbuilt. Cross wing to east possibly C17 of three timber-framed bays with carved C17 barge boards. Four ground floor windows include one oriel window with shaped brackets and one C19 window planted on C15 or C16 frame with moulded sill. One gabled dormer window and two attic windows with horizontal sliding sashes. Interior shows exposed timber-frame and inserted floor and C19 and C20 staircases. The screen has been removed from the cross passage and is said to be in a house in Fulbourn. The crest of Adam the Chaundler of a pelican in her piety was removed c.1930 to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge. Plaster frieze in east cross wing of two children. One fire hook attached to east wall.

Palmer, W.M. A C14 House in Linton, PCAS XXXII, 1930 Millicent, R Copy of Linton Map. 1600. Pembroke College Palmer, W.M. and Morley. Linton Photographic Collection 1913 Pl.27 Palmer, W.M. The Antiquities of Linton 1913 p11 CC Wherry, G.W. Rings under eaves etc PCAS XII, p235 R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H. Vol. VI p82

Listing NGR: TL5628146825