Linton House

Linton House is a large house, originally composed of two separate buildings, dating to the late 17th century and circa 1690, with later alterations in the late 18th and late 19th centuries. The main building forms a north-south U-shaped range of two storeys with attics and cellars, linked in the 19th century to an earlier building that was converted into a service wing with a two-storey and attic design and an original lobby entrance facing the street. The construction materials vary, including late 17th-century red brick with stone dressings, 19th-century red brick, late 18th-century gault brick, and late 18th-century stucco on the west facade. The roofs are covered with plain tiles.

The west elevation exhibits symmetrical wings with side stacks, rusticated stone quoins, a moulded wooden eaves cornice, and a cast iron gutter featuring leopard masks. A half-glazed panelled door is approached by semicircular stone steps, framed by a doorcase with stone pilasters and a shell hood supported on carved brackets. There are four ground floor and four first floor windows, each featuring eighteen panes within recessed hung sash frames and stone mask keystones (other keystones mark blocked windows). Four flat-roofed dormer windows are also present. The east elevation showcases a symmetrical five-bay facade in gault brick with stucco bands between floors and below the parapet. It features a main entrance within a closed, pedimented porch with a half-glazed panelled door, and four ground floor and four first floor recessed windows with twelve panes in hung sash frames. The north elevation of the earlier house, refronted in the late 19th century, has seven bays, retaining late 17th- or early 18th-century twelve-paned hung sash windows. A central blind window obscures the original entrance, and there are three dormer windows with flat roofs, along with a tall, rectangular ridge stack.

The interior includes original late 17th-century bolection moulded panelling in two rooms. There are 18th-century chimney pieces with marble surrounds, and a staircase rebuilt using 18th-century turned balusters – barley-twist and flat balusters are found in the attic stair. 19th-century room partitions were also introduced. The later house was built by John Lone (died 1700), a Whig lawyer. The west doorcase is reputedly from Catley Park (demolished circa 1770 by Edmund Keen, Bishop of Ely). The house remained unoccupied from 1851 to circa 1880.