The Old Guild House

TL 5248 GREAT ABINGTON HIGH STREET (West Side)

11/16 Nos. 88 and 90 (The Old Guild House)

GV II

Cottage. C15 with C16 and C17 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with two bays to west exposed. Thatched roof. Red brick ridge stack and stack to west gable end. Painted plinth. One storey and attic. C20 boarded door, eight ground floor casement windows of various sizes with glazing bars and three plain tiled gabled dormer windows. Interior: Some timber-frame survives of the original C15 building, rebuilt mid C16 with inserted floors; floor to central room with roll-moulded joists and axial beam. Segmental arched brick fire place mid to late C17. The cottage is sited on the north side of the former road from Linton to Bourn Bridge, a stone cross marked the cross roads in the early C19. Wm Palmer suggests the cottage was once the guildhall.

Map. Gt. Abington 1687, C.R.O. Palmer, W.M. 'The Neighbourhood of Hildersham', 1924

Listing NGR: TL5316748680