Description

TL 5050 BABRAHAM HIGH STREET (South-East Side)

8/53 Chalk Farmhouse

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. C17 or earlier with early C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered; plain tiled hipped roof, tall rectangular planned ridge stack and rear stack. Two storeys with cellars; L-plan. Symmetrical facade to street of three 'bays', six-panelled door with rectangular fanlight and pilastered doorcase with panelled reveals and flat canopy. Two ground floor three-light hung sash windows and three flush- framed sixteen-paned hung sash windows. The north-west room ceiling line cuts the window. The original hall and cross-wing plan was remodelled in the C19 and additions made to the south, it may have originally jettied to the street.

R.C.H.M. Report 1951

Listing NGR: TL5129850329

External Links

• Wikidata Q26616048

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014