The Rectory
THE RECTORY, 16, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127398
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE RECTORY, 16, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127398
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RECTORY, 16, 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 RECTORY, 16, 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:
- Fen Ditton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48431 60297
Details
TL 4860-4960 FEN DITTON HIGH STREET (North Side)
18/21 No. 16 (The Rectory)
GV II
House. Late C17, early C18 and early C19. Red and yellow local C17 brick, C19 gault brick. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys with attics and cellars. L-Plan, main range with gable end stack to east, south wing added with similar gable stack. North service wing C19 addition. Gable end stacks with diaper red and yellow brick patterning, each with three rebuilt diagonal shafts. Main range cased in C19 gault brick. Street facade; one six-paned hung sash dormer window, two first floor twelve-paned flush-framed hung sash windows and one similar window slightly recessed to left hand of half-glazed six-panelled door with cast iron canopy. Interior has ovolo moulded ceiling beams and reset C17 panelling. R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 61, mon. 14. Hunt, Cambs and Peterb Life, Vol. 8, No. 85, p. 16.
Listing NGR: TL4843160297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50572
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Life in Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Life, Vol. 8, (), 16
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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