The Old Courthouse
THE OLD COURTHOUSE, 123, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127117
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Courthouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COURTHOUSE, 123, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02643/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127117
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Courthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COURTHOUSE, 123, 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:
- THE OLD COURTHOUSE, 123, 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:
- Bottisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54709 60366
Details
TL 5460 BOTTISHAM HIGH STREET (North East Side) 11/9 No. 123 (The Old Courthouse)
II
Former magistrates court and offices, probably a police station, now a house, built 1858. Gault brick with low pitch, slate roofs. Plan of single storey office or police station on the front with a two storey courtroom at rear. Office has chanelled rustication to the quoins, walls and voussoirs of the window arches. Low pitch roof with a parapet. Three round headed bays to the front wall, with a band at impost height. Each bay has a recessed fixed light window with a pivot casement. The courtroom at the rear is of a similar brick, but without the rustication, and has a hipped low pitch slate roof. Two storeys with pilaster strips at the corners and between the two bays of the side elevations. Each bay has round headed arches to two fixed light windows with pivot casements. The main entries are in flanking porches to the front of the slightly projecting courtroom.
Cambridgeshire Connection: News Report
Listing NGR: TL5470960366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49282
- 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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