Cherry Tree Cottage

CHERRY TREE COTTAGE, 3, DRURY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127564
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:
Cherry Tree Cottage
Statutory Address:
CHERRY TREE COTTAGE, 3, DRURY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127564
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Cherry Tree Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CHERRY TREE COTTAGE, 3, DRURY LANE

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHERRY TREE COTTAGE, 3, DRURY LANE

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:
TL3876744959

Details

In the entry for:

TL 3844
24/148
4.3.83

MELBOURN
DRURY LANE
(East Side)
No.1

GV
II

The address shall be amended to read:

DRURY LANE
(East Side)
No 3 Cherry Tree Cottage

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TL 3844
24/148
4.3.83

MELBOURN
DRURY LANE
(East side)
No. 1

GV
II

Cottage. Early C18, early C19 and recently restored and extended (1984).
Timber framed, rendered and long straw thatch roof with ridge stack of two
flues, rendered. Roof over right hand bay raised C19. Lobby entry plan, and
two bays with a further narrower bay to the left hand. One storey and
attic. Two dormers. Three windows and door, all 1984. Inside: Original
soft red brick to inglenook hearth with contemporary bread oven. Timber
framing with straight bracing intact in rear wall, one end wall and a
partition wall. The front wall, however, has been rebuilt. In early C19 the
cottage was sub-divided and a hearth inserted to right hand room, the roof
raised and rebuilt and new doorway made in front wall.

Listing NGR: TL3876744959

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
52199
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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