Description

TL 3043 LITLINGTON ABINGTON ROAD
(North Side)

19/150 The Bury Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C18 with early C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick painted,
and timber-framed with roughcast render. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with
attics and cellar. Double pile plan with single storey bakehouse range to
north. Brick gable walls with end stacks; symmetrical three 'bay'
timber-framed facade. C19 panelled door with rectangular fanlight and flat
canopy supported on shaped brackets. Two ground floor and three first floor
early C19 flush-framed twelve-paned hung sash windows. Painted brick plinth
and coved eaves cornice. Interior: Early C18 panelling with deep moulded
cornice in south-west room, and early C19 reed-moulded chimney piece.
Original C18 panelled door, plain first floor doors, and boarded attic doors.
Large open hearth with replaced mantel beam in south-east room. Some exposed
timber-frame of internal walls. The farmhouse is sited to the south of a
moated site.

RCHM Report 1950
VCH Vol VIII p.56

Listing NGR: TL3105943104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615847

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)