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Walcot Hall, Barnack
History of Walcot Hall
Listed Building:
Circa 1674-8. Walcot Hall has been attributed to John Webb but Webb died in 1672 and the house was not bought until 1674 by Sir Hugh Cholmley who pulled the old hall down and built the present house. 1678 date on 2 rainwater heads.
…hall was in the Browne family till 1662, was then purchased by Bernard Walcot who sold it circa 1674 to Sir Hugh Cholmley who pulled the old hall down and built the present house. His arms are over one of the fireplaces. It soon passed to Hon Sydney Montague and circa 1770 was sold to John Nash, youngest son of Lord Campden.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1331241?section=official-listing
This was the HQ of a battalion of the Suffolk Regiment in 1914. At the beginning of the Second World War it was the remote Operations Room for RAF Wittering, and from 1942 it was HQ of the 67th Fighter Wing of the 8th USAAF.
See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire p.93.
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