Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • South Cambridge­shire
  • /
  • Linton
  • Back Forward

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

Tags

  • hospital
  • Listed building

Projects

  • Linton

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Linton

56 Church Street, Haslingfield

West Leetes, Leetes Lane, Little Eversden

The Burystead, Sutton

8 Horn Lane, Linton

100 High Street, Ram House, Linton

8 Green Lane, The Old Green, Linton

114 & 114A High Street, Linton

18 Bartlow Road, Emson’s Farmhouse, Linton

41 High Street, Boswells (Dixons) Bakery, Linton

1 & 3 Coles Lane, Robert Cole’s House, Linton

38 High Street, Linton Literary Institute (Coffee House)

97 High Street, Fulwells, Linton

2 High Street, Linton