Well House
WELL HOUSE, 50, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127073
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Well House
- Statutory Address:
- WELL HOUSE, 50, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127073
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Well House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL HOUSE, 50, HIGH STREET
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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:
- WELL HOUSE, 50, 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 Prior
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5675663947
Details
TL 5663
15/159
SWAFFHAM PRIOR
HIGH STREET
(West Side)
No 50 Well House
GV
II
House, probably early C16 but possibly an open-hall. Later
alterations include the addition of a shop to the South end and
a service wing at the rear. The house was extended again in the
C19. Timber-frame on brick sill with plaster rendered walls.
Gable ends rebuilt in brick. Plain tile gable roofs, hipped to
South with a gablet. Coved eaves and early C18 ridge stack of
yellow brick with red brick quoins and string-course. End stack
is C19. Plan of three bays with a cross-passage at low end of
hall. One storey and attics. Three flat roof dormers each with
C18-C19 horizontal sliding sashes with small panes. The house
doorway is possibly on the site of the entry to the
cross-passage. It has an early C19 flat hood and a panelled
door. There is a C19 bootscraper attached to the brick sill at
the side of the door. On either side of the doorway are two
late C18 or early C19 hung sashes of sixteen panes each with
early C19 panelled shutters. The early C19 double fronted shop
has an elliptical hood of lead. The single room kitchen wing is
also timber-framed but of lighter scantling. Two storeys with a
plain tiled roof. Inside the house has hollow and roll moulded
main beams in the hall floor frame and the sites for two diamond
mullion windows.
R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p124, mon (13)
Listing NGR: TL5675663947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49382
- 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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