Musgrave Farmhouse

TL 4860-4960 FEN DITTON HIGH STREET (North Side)

18/19 No. 10 (Musgrave 11.4.80 Farmhouse) GV II*

Farmhouse. Late C16 and early C17 with C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered, C17 local brick, C19 gault brick casing. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys with attics; L-Plan, C16 timber-framed cross-wing jettied to street with later brick east range at right angles and C19 outshut in angle. Ridge stack and large rear stack to east range. Street elevation; brick plinth, one three-light attic casement window, two first floor three-light transomed casement windows at ground floor. Main entrance in west facing facade cased in gault brick: four-panelled door with rectangular fanlight, cambered brick arches to three first floor sixteen-paned recessed hung sash windows, one similar ground floor window, and one larger twelve-paned hung sash window. Interior details of C17 panelling see R.C.H.M. East Cambs. Recently discovered ovolo moulded side lights to cross-wing windows. Painted imitation panelling on east wall of first floor room in east wing. C16 cross-wing a surviving part of a building to the west. R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 61, mon. 16. Inclosure Award Map, 1807 C.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL4849860268