Pink Geranium Restaurant

PINK GERANIUM RESTAURANT, 25, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127548
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Pink Geranium Restaurant
Statutory Address:
PINK GERANIUM RESTAURANT, 25, STATION ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127548
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Pink Geranium Restaurant
Statutory Address 1:
PINK GERANIUM RESTAURANT, 25, STATION ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PINK GERANIUM RESTAURANT, 25, STATION ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Melbourn
National Grid Reference:
TL 38169 44793

Details

MELBOURN STATION ROAD TL 3844 (South west side) 24/205 No. 25 (Pink Geranium Restaurant) GV II

Cottage, now cottage and restaurant. Mid-late C17 extended on garden side late C20. Timber framed, lathe and plaster rendered and long straw thatch roof with original soft red brick axial ridge stack. Small later stack to end away from road. Three bay plan with end to road, and probably a lobby entry, but this has been removed when the cottage was extended in late C20. One storey and attic. Two dormers. Part of the front wall to the garden has been removed during extension. Inside: wall frame and roof are exposed. Framing of uniform and substantial scantling with straight downward bracing, even to partition walls, and somewhat similar to inter alia no. 6 Little Lane (q.v.). Abutting inglenook hearths. The red brick is exposed in part and the rest has been rendered. The roof has paired wind bracing between the principal rafter and the purlin of the chimney bay. In 1842 the property was owner by John Hitch and occupied by Robert Deans.

Dr. D. Mills: Technique of House Repopulation, experience from a Cambs. Village, 1841. (Local Historian, Vol.. 13 No. 2, May 1978).

Listing NGR: TL3816944793

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Legacy System number:
52258
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Local Historian in Local Historian, Vol. 13, (1978)

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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