sps1955's photos with the keyword: Linton

Early C14 tower; the Parys chapel on the S side of the chancel is late C15; aisle walls, S porch and clerestory rebuilt c.1500 or later [according to the Buildings of England (2014), p.593, glass formerly in the clerestory was datable to c.1520]: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1162094 .

From E. Formerly a pair of cottages dating from the late C17; planning permission to convert to a single dwelling was granted in 1953. The large front garden was the site of the village's market in the C13, but was enclosed in 1840, and was occupied by other buildings until it became part of the garden of no. 8 after 1953. When the photograph was taken, no. 8 was empty and the subject of a planning application for repair and modernization: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331167 ; plan.scambs.gov.uk/swiftlg/MediaTemp/1132328-498030.pdf .

The thatched cottages and the tiled section on the right are 13-17: "Row of cottages, originally C16 farmhouse converted in c.1840 to five dwellings with C20 extension to south and rear. Timber-framed and plastered, weather boarded plinth ... Two ridge stacks with grouped shafts rebuilt ... A cross beam projects with a key peg to No. 15 [visible above the second ground-floor window from the right] suggesting perhaps a later inserted floor": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1162267 .

From S. Early C18 watermill, partly rebuilt and enlarged in C19 and 1903. A mill has been recorded on the site since c.1270; it ceased working c.1972. Listing: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127651 . The road between the buildings is a public one.

From SE. c.1523; late C17 ridge stack to left-hand range and side stack on the right. "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": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331166 .

c.1523; the original entrance, in the second bay from the left, has been replaced by a window; three of the other ground-floor windows with moulded mullions are original. "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": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331166 . The churchyard gates are separately listed Grade II: "Cast iron piers, panelled with moulded caps and water leaf finials": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127695 .

Looking S. towards Linton water tower, about 1.50 pm GMT. Snow had now been lying for a over a week, but the thaw set in on the following day.

Looking SE from near the Balsham to Hildersham road, with Linton water tower on the horizon