The Old House

TL 2659-2759 ELTISLEY THE GREEN (South Side)

11/122 No 75 31.8.62 (The Old House)

GV II

House. Dated 'ID 1612 ED', on lintel to blocked door, built for James Disbrowe (d.1638) and his wife Elizabeth. Exposed timber-frame with plain tile roofs and plastered plinth. Two storeys and attics; main range with integral crosswing to south, gabled stair turret in angle of rear elevation with blocked entrance; main entrance in original cross passage position. Lower range to south, partly enclosing the crosswing, originally single storeyed. Rendered bay window to full height of north elevation, a restored original feature. East elevation. Close-studded timber-frame with internal bracing and bressumers at floor levels; crosswing jettied at eaves height with side purlin roof. Window replacements in original openings; two ground floor, three first floor and one attic casement windows with one original ovolo-moulded mullioned six-light window at first floor. Boarded door. Interior. Spiral staircase with octagonal newel post, framed ceilings with primary and secondary cross-beams with ovolo-moulding and chamfered detail, Blocked doorways (RCHM) suggest original arrangement of rooms. Two large open hearths. Large ponds to the south are thought to be part of a water garden. R.C.H.M. mon.17.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p92, mon.2 Plate 77 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p338

Listing NGR: TL2696659652