The Old House

TL 3668-3768 SWAVESEY BLACKHORSE LANE (South Side)

14/103 No. 7 31.8.62 (The Old House)

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Early C18 and C19. C18 red brick with lighter red brick dressings, C19 gault brick, some exposed timber frame in rear wing with red brick nogging. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys with attics and basement; double pile plan achieved after C19 addition to original L-plan. Five symmetrical 'bays'. Moulded brick cornice with swan-necked pediment to original doorway, six-panelled door and rectangular fanlight with patterned glazing bars; hood with soffit panels and dentil cornice supported on modern brick jambs. Four, ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows with key blocks to flat gauged brick arches; five similar first floor windows. Tumbled brick parapet gables with end stacks, dentil and moulded brick eaves cornice. Interior details C19; original ground floor plan of hall and parlour partitioned for C19 staircase hall. The farmhouse was formerly known as Chantry Farmhouse and is said to have been built with 6,000 bricks from Scarborough. Heffer. Camb. L. Hist. Council Bulletin. No.29 1973 Deeds. (Chantry Farmhouse)

Listing NGR: TL3606068839