Little Linton Farmhouse, Cambridge Road

History of Little Linton Farmhouse

Listed building:

Farmhouse. C16, rebuilt C17 with two rear wings, partly demolished in early C19. C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered, and painted brick. Slate and plain tile hipped roofs with C17 ridge stack to rear wing with grouped shafts and rebuilt ridge stack to right of centre of main north-south range.

Early C19 bakehouse and brewhouse, to north of flint with red brick dressings. Farmhouse is situated to the east of a large moated site. (Historic England)

According to W M Palmer (1924) Little Linton was once much larger. He found extensive signs of Roman occupation. There is evidence of four moats enclosing more than eleven acres.

The tenant in 1650 was Giles Joscelyn who had been a prominent Royalist, but he changed sides. He was buried in the Quaker burial ground which lies underneath the Shepherd’s Hall alongside his favourite pony.