Description

TL 5646 LINTON CHURCH LANE (West Side)

16/95 No. 4 22.11.67 (The Guildhall)

GV II*

House formerly the Guildhall, dedicated to the Trinity. c.1523. Timber- framed, exposed at first floor and plastered with some timber repair. Painted brick. Late C17 ridge stack to left hand range and tall side stack to north range. Plain tiled parallel gable roofs. Two storeys. Two parallel east-west ranges with range to north shorter, united in east elevation with jetty returning along south elevation. Moulded jetty bressumer. Main range of five close studded timber-framed bays marked in side elevation by solid curved braces springing from damaged moulded capitals on the main posts. Original main entrance in second bay from west with moulded wooden frame with carved spandrels forming four-centred head now blocked by a window. Three original four-light windows and one restored window with moulded mullions; three horizontal sliding sash first floor windows replace original windows with one window blocked by inserted studs. Corner post to dragon beam deeply chamfered with carved capital (qv No. 81 High Street). Two first floor C20 casement windows with lattice lights and two ground floor three-light huny sash windows flanking six-panelled C19 door with wooden frame. Interior: Four bays to east originally one room. Exposed floor frames with ogee moulded beams and joists. Two doorways of unequal width with spandrels forming four-centred arches to inner room of west bay with blocked first floor entrance to north giving access to an external stair. Blocked ground floor entrance in east elevation of north range with internal doors to inner, possibly service rooms, C20 door heads inserted in first floor partition above. Late C17 fireplaces with segmental brick arches. Side purlin roof with curved windbraces in each bay. In 1507 Nicholas Wickham the parish priest left two marks towards making a new guildhall, the building was nearly complete in 1523. After the suppression of the guilds in 1547 it was used as the Town House, in 1697 it became a private house.

Palmer, M W and Morley photographic collection. p49. 1913 V.C.H. Vol. VI, p98 Stevens, R L Linton, P.C. Pub. 1983, 'The Guildhall etc' (unpublished) R.C.H.M. Report 1951

Listing NGR: TL5616246713

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