Causeway Farmhouse

Causeway Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1620, with later alterations and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed, with plaster and weatherboarding, and features limestone and brick plinths. The roof is plain tiled, topped with a red brick ridge stack. The building has two storeys and an attic on the right side, with a continuous jetty. The ground floor has a three-unit layout, while the first floor has a two-unit layout. There is a one-storey kitchen wing and an outshut at the rear.

On the west elevation, there is a rectangular stack with conjoined diagonal shafts and rebuilt upper courses. The jetty is cased in weatherboarding and supported by two rendered brick piers. The main entrance is on the left side, featuring a boarded door. There are two ground floor windows and three first floor windows of various sizes, all with glazing bars.

Inside, the timber frame consists of five bays with conventional construction. The main timbers have chamfered soffits, and the ceiling beams feature cyma-stop-chamfers. There are back-to-back hearths on the ground floor, which have been blocked by late 18th-century hearths and cupboards, while two first floor hearths have small grates. A 19th-century staircase rises to the attic floor on the east side of the stack. The 18th-century kitchen wing has a large gable end stack that once included a baking oven.

The farmhouse is located on a former fen island called Elmney, which has historical ties to the Benedictines and Denny Abbey. A Roman road or causeway connected this island to Denny Abbey. After the Dissolution of the Abbey in 1548, the site was leased to Edward Elkington.