50, HIGH STREET
50, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126002
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 50, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 50, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126002
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 50, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 50, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 50, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48651 56390
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
HIGH STREET, Cherry Hinton TL 45 NE (east side) No 50 21/10003 - II House. Circa early C17, extended and remodelled in circa late C17 or early C18; faced in brick in circa late C19. Timber framed faced in Flemish and stretcher bond gault brick; random bond red brick gable end of rear wing. Asbestos tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable end stacks. Plan: Original front (W) range is of 3-room plan with central hall and parlour on right (S) heated from back-to-back fireplaces in axial stack and smaller unheated service room at left (N) end. In circa late C17 or early C18 a staircase was inserted into putative entrance lobby in front of axial stack, the service room was divided axially into 2 small rooms and a kitchen wing with a gable end stack was built behind the left (N) service end. In circa late C19 the house was refaced in brick. Exterior: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window west front. C19 4, 6 and 8-pane casements and 2 flush panel doors in cambered brick arch openings. Gabled dormer to left of centre with C19 horizontally sliding sash with glazing bars. Similar dormer at rear to left and gable-ended wing to right with later outbuilding attached. Flush panel door on S side of wing. Interior:Hall has boxed-in axial beam, large fireplace with boxed-in timber lintel and china cupboard with shaped shelves. Parlour (S) has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops, 2-panel door and C20 chimneypiece. Chamfered beams and exposed wall framing in north service rooms. Kitchen has chamfered axial beam with runout stops and large brick fireplace with chamfered timber lintel. Much C17/18 joinery including plank and panel doors, and staircase with square newel and splat balusters. Chambers ceiled but wall-plates, tie-beams in gable ends and wall studding exposed. Clasped purlin roof over rear wing.
Listing NGR: TL4865156390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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