Bolebec Cottage
BOLEBEC COTTAGE, 33, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127049
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bolebec Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOLEBEC COTTAGE, 33, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127049
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bolebec Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOLEBEC COTTAGE, 33, 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:
- BOLEBEC COTTAGE, 33, 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:
- Swaffham Bulbeck
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55648 62607
Details
TL 5562 SWAFFHAM BULBECK HIGH STREET (East Side) 16/126 No. 33 (Bolebec Cottage)
GV II
House, dated 1587 on overmantel in ground floor rear room. Timber-framed, exposed in gable end with rendered infill. Plain tiled steeply pitched roof with original ridge stack of gault brick with recessed panel to base. Originally a three bay parlour wing to a hall, now demolished. Two storeys and attic, with the first floor jettied. Gable end has one C20 window to each floor but the ground floor window is flanked by two, three-light windows with original ovolo mullions. The framing is of substantial scantling and there are curved downward braces from the corner posts to the sill. Inside. The ceilings of the front and rear rooms are carried on prick posts with moulded heads. The inglenook at the rear has an overmantel of clunch in three bays divided by short pilasters. The end bays have the initials W.C. and S.C. and the centre bay the date 1587. There is some original panelling with a frieze in the rear room. An upper room has a main beam with ovolo moulding and an original fireplace of clunch, now badly worn. The roof is of clasped, through purlin construction. The middle rail in the North side wall has the mortices for the floor frame of the hall.
R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p107, mon (15)
Listing NGR: TL5564862607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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