Priests House
PRIESTS HOUSE, 99, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127050
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Priests House
- Statutory Address:
- PRIESTS HOUSE, 99, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127050
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Priests House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIESTS HOUSE, 99, 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:
- PRIESTS HOUSE, 99, 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 55574 62250
Details
TL 5562 SWAFFHAM BULBECK HIGH STREET (East Side) 16/129 No. 99 (Priests 19.8.1959 House) (formerly listed as Priest's House, High Street) II
House, originally an open hall, early C15 with a C16 jettied cross wing to the road. In early C16 the floor and chimney stack were inserted into the open hall. Timber-framed, rendered with Collyweston Stone slates and plain tiles. Hall timber-framed, plaster rendered with a steeply pitched, tiled roof with a ridge stack of clunch and brick. One storey and attics. The fenestration is all C20, but the doorways, although C20, are on the site of the original entries to the cross-passage. Jettied parlour range to road, mid-late C16. Timber-framed plaster rendered with a roof retaining some of the original Collyweston stone slates at the front and plain tiles at the rear. Two storeys. The jetty joists are moulded and two of the original four jetty brackets survive. Two C20 windows on site of late C18 or early C19 flush frame hung sashes at first and ground floor and one doorway of similar period at left hand. The blocked doorway to the right hand is reset and has an unmoulded four centred arch in a square head. At the front are cast-iron railings by Wilkinson of Ely, mid C19, in the form of panels with grotesque mask heads at the centres. Inside. The hall range retains the original cross-passage entries with opposing doorways and two adjacent doorways leading to the buttery and pantry. One of these service doorways has been remodelled but the other has been exposed to show a four centred arch in square head with the spandrels carved with foliate ornament and one with a shield of arms and the other with a bearded male head with a coronet, probably a king. The early C16 floor is particularly fine with hollow and roll moulding to both the main beams and the joists. The inglenook hearth, contemporary with the ceiling, is of clunch. The roof was originally of crown-post construction but only one end of the tie beam to the display truss remains intact, the rest has been removed. It has a double ogee moulding. Between the hall and service bay, there is a closed truss with close studding and curved downward bracing from a central post to the middle rail. The interior of the parlour range was remodelled late in C18, except for the first floor where the framing is visible. The posts have jowled heads and the main beams are stop chamfered.
R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p105, mon (8) Kelly's Directory
Listing NGR: TL5557462250
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49428
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Cambridgeshire, (1847)
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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