74, High Street

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET (South Side)

16/161 No. 74 GV II

House, formerly a house and butcher's shop. Late C15 with late C17 and late C19 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered; C19 painted gault brick. Plain tiled roofs. C17 red brick ridge stack to right of centre. Two storeys; original hall house with cross wings raised to two storeys in late C17 with chimney stack inserted into hall. Cross wing to west extended at the same time to south linking main range to C16 industrial building, inserting two chimney stacks and converting part of the building to kitchen and service rooms. East wing extended to south in C19 for staircase, passage cut through main stack to entrance, and alterations made for a shop with single storey flat roofed extension between the wings; large three-light shop window flanked by glazed-panelled house and shop doors and two sixteen-paned hung sash windows. Four first floor twelve-paned hung sash windows. Late C19 brick facing to C17 cartway to left hand with double boarded doors and segmental brick arch and twelve-paned hung sash window above. Fire rings attached to cornice in rear elevation. Interior: Late C17 cornice and chimney piece to first floor room. Crown post roof to east cross wing, exposed timber-frame and floor frame. C16 industrial building originally with two two-bayed barns flanking two floored central bays, with side purlin wind braced roof, was possibly used for coopering.

Millicent, R Map of Linton, 1600. Pembroke College Wherry, G W Fire Hooks and Rings, Vol. XII, p235 P.C.A.S. R.C.H.M. Report 1951

Listing NGR: TL5628746804