Description

TL 3445 WHADDON BRIDGE STREET
(East Side)

11/232 No. 141 (The Grange)
Dyer's Green
18.6.86

GV II*

House, formerly a farmhouse. Late C14 with late C15 modifications, and late
C16 and C18 additions. Timber-framed and plastered with tarred brick plinth.
Plain tiled roofs. Red brick stacks to west cross-wing and east end of main
range each with four septagonal or octagonal shafts with moulded chamfered
bases and without original caps. Two storeys. Modified half H-plan. Main
C14 range of three bays originally forming two open halls, converted to a
trading hall c.1500 with inserted floors and jetty constructed in west gable
(qv The Oak House, Hinxton, Cambs.); C16 cross-wings, to east with upper
hall, and to west of three bays including a chimney bay framed from reused C13
or C14 timbers; double gabled C18 service wing to north. South elevation:
Coved plastered eaves cornice. C19 bargeboards with apex finials. C18 raised
and fielded panelled door in C16 cross passage position with canopy supported
on shaped brackets. Five ground floor casement windows include two large
early C20 windows; five first floor casement windows. Interior: Exposed
timber-frame and floor frames show clearly the different building periods.
Complete C14 roof with smoke blackened timbers, plain crown posts in closed
trusses, chamfered in open truss with wide braces to the tie beams and braces
to the collar purlin. C16 plastered moulded brick hearths and cooking hearth
to south-west room, four chimney cupboards with original doors and hinges.
Early C17 panelling in first floor south-west room complete with strap work
frieze. Late C18 open string staircase. The farmhouse, formerly part of
Fountains Farm, was converted to a farmhouse by the Wimpole Estate in the
early C18 and sold in 1913. It is possible that the building was owned by the
Lilley family in the C15; the Lilley estate came into the possessions of Sir
Thos Cartwright 1567-97, and Henry Halfheide in the early C17 keeper of the
Kings Game.

V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.143

Listing NGR: TL3507745535

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550364

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)