Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 56, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127300
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 56, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127300
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 56, 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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 56, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oakington and Westwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41402 64771
Details
TL 46SW OAKINGTON HIGH STREET (South East Side)
8/83 No. 56 (Church Farmhouse)
II
House, C15 open hall and crosswing, and C17 alterations and insertions. Timber framed, rendered with long straw thatched roofs, hipped to right hand and C17 stack of narrow gault bricks with diagonally set grouped shafts. Later stack to gable end to road. Original open hall with crosspassage converted to lobby entry in C17 when stack was inserted. Two storeys and two storeys and attic. One C19 - C20 casement to each storey of hall and crosswing. Interior: Abutting inglenook hearths. One to right hand in the kitchen, has been much rebuilt. The other to the former open hall has soft red brick to the jambs and narrow gault brick to the stack. Floor inserted in this room in the C17. Narrow joists laid on edge. The wall between the hall and crosswing has six painted panels between the studs, the panels being painted to imitate square moulded panelling of early C17, with approximately six to each panel. The panels are now concealed. Two doorways possibly on the site of the original service doorways, lead to the crosswing. The dog leg staircase has a c.1660 balustrade of flat section balusters, and the square newel has a faceted ball finial. A small closet at first floor still retains coat and hat pegs which are possibly late C17. The crosswing has a clasped side purlin roof with curved wind bracing. The roof over the former open hall has been rebuilt but retains a pair of sooted rafters from the original. R.C.H.M. record card .. ... . .
Listing NGR: TL4140264771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50830
- 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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