12 Symonds Lane, Red Cottage, Linton

History of Red Cottage

Listed Building:

House, formerly the village pest house. 1748. Red brick, plain tiled roof with tumbled parapet gables and stack behind ridge.

The pest house was used to isolate people suffering from infectious diseases in the parish.

Historic England

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