Maids Head Public House
MAIDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126422
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Maids Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- MAIDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126422
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Maids Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12, 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:
- MAIDS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 12, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wicken
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 57132 70669
Details
TL 57 SE WICKEN HIGH STREET (North Side) 8/88 No. 12 (Maids Head PH) (formerly listed as 1.12.51 Maids Head Public House) GV II House, possibly an open hall, C15 with late C16 crosswing to right hand and 1852 block to left hand. Open-hall timber framed with floor and stack inserted in C16 and cased in gault brick in C19. Hall has thatched roof of reed with ridge stack of grouped shafts on a square base. One storey and attic. Two dormer. Two doorways, one possibly at original entry to cross-passage and the other to the lobby entry. Crosswing, mid C16. Timber framed rendered with gable end rebuilt in brick. Thatched roof of reed with plastered coving to eaves. One storey and attics. Addition to left hand dated 1852 on stone panel in rear wall. Gault brick with shallow, hipped slate roof. Two storeys. Front elevation has three blind, eliptically headed bays divided by four recessed hung sashes of twelve panes each.
Listing NGR: TL5713270669
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48896
- 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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