Causeway Farmhouse

WATERBEACH CHITTERING TL 56 NW 5/145A Causeway Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Circa 1620 with late C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed, plastered and weather boarded. Limestone and brick plinths. Plain tiled roofs; red brick ridge stack. Two storeys with attic to right hand, continuous jetty, three unit ground floor and two unit first floor plan. One storey kitchen wing and outshut to rear. West elevation: rectangular stack with conjoined diagonal shafts, rebuilt upper courses. Jetty cased in weather boarding with two rendered brick pier supports. Main entrance to left hand with boarded door, two ground floor and three first floor windows of various sizes with glazing bars. Interior: Timber frame of five bays, conventional construction with chamfered soffits to main timbers and cyma-stop-chamfers to ceiling beams. Back to back hearths at ground floor blocked by late C18 hearths and cupboards, two first floor hearths with small grates. Staircase C19 rising to attic floor on east of stack. C18 kitchen wing with large gable end stack formerly with a baking oven. The farmhouse is situated on a former fen island, Elmney, historically associated with the Benedictines and Denny Abbey; a Roman road or causeway linked the island with that of Denny Abbey. In 1548 after the Dissolution of the Abbey the site was leased to Edward Elkington. Ravensdale J Liable to Flood, 1974.

Listing NGR: TL5012569568