Linton House

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET (South Side)

16/155 No. 64 (Linton 22.11.67 House) GV II*

Large house, originally two separate buildings. Late C17 and c.1690 with late C18 and late C19 alterations. Late C17 red brick with stone dressings, C19 red brick and late C18 gault brick, late C18 stucco to west facade. Plain tiled hipped roofs. Main building forming north-south U-plan range of two storeys with attics and cellars, linked in C19 to earlier building converted to a service wing of two storeys and attics with an original lobby entry plan facing the street. West elevation: symmetrical wings with side stacks, rusticated stone quoins, moulded wooden eaves cornice and cast iron gutter with leopard masks. Half-glazed panelled-door approached by semi circular stone steps, doorcase with stone pilasters and shell hood supported on carved brackets. Four ground floor and four first floor eighteen-paned slightly recessed hung sash windows with stone mask keystones (other keystones mark blocked windows). Four flat roofed dormer windows. East elevation; symmetrical five 'bays' faced in gault brick with stucco bands between floors and below parapet. Main entrance in closed pedimented porch with half-glazed panelled door. Four ground floor and four first floor recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows. North elevation of early C17 nouse; seven 'bays' refronted in late C19 retaining the late C17 or early C18 twelve-paned hung sash windows, a central blind window blocks the original entrance; three dormer windows with flat roofs, tall rectangular planned ridge stack. Interior: original late C17 bolection moulded panelling to two rooms. C18 chimney pieces with marble surrounds, staircase rebuilt using C18 turned balusters, barley-twist and flat balusters in attic stair, C19 room partitions. The later house was built by John Lone (d.1700) a whig lawyer. The west doorcase is said to have been introduced from Catley Park (demolished c.1770 by Edmund Keen Bishop of Ely). The house remained empty from 1851 - c.1880.

Palmer, M W The Antiquities of Linton, p13 1913 V.C.H. Vol. VI, p89 Stevens, R L Linton P.C. Pub. p36 1983 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p425 R.C.H.M. Report 1951 Cambridge Chronicle 17 Feb 1781

Listing NGR: TL5618646804