Orchard Cottage
ORCHARD COTTAGE, 61, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127561
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, 61, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127561
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, 61, STATION ROAD
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:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, 61, 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:
- Meldreth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37925 45023
Details
MELDRETH STATION ROAD TL 3745 (North side) 23/243 No. 61 (Orchard Cottage) GV II
Cottage. Dated 1662. Small c.1800 pantry extension to north end. Timber framed, plaster rendered and long straw thatch, half-hipped roof with ridge stack of red brick upper courses originally on timber framed and plastered stack (now replaced). A good example of three bay and lobby entry plan cottage. One storey and attic. Two dormers with C19 casements. Two casements on either side of doorway with boarded door to single bay pantry addition to the north end, c.1800, probably when the cottage was sub divided. Timber framed, rendered and thatched. One casement. Inside: cottage retains many original details including the internal partition walls at the service end and the staircase at the side of the stack. The framing is similar to that of other cottages of late C17 with straight downward bracing. Side purl in roof. Elm boarding to the floors. In the C19 there was a blacksmiths forge adjoining the cottage. The lintel over the original hearth was dated 1662. The lintel was deposited in a local museum following a fire in 1959.
R.C.H.M: Record Card (1949)
Listing NGR: TL3792545023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52296
- 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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