The Old White House
THE OLD WHITE HOUSE, 27, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127575
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old White House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD WHITE HOUSE, 27, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127575
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD WHITE HOUSE, 27, 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 OLD WHITE HOUSE, 27, 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:
- Melbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38511 44950
Details
MELBOURN HIGH STREET TL 3844 (South east side) 24/170 No. 27 (The Old White House) II
House. C18 origin, remodelled and roof raised early C19. Altered and extended mid-late C20. Timber framed, plaster rendered and low pitch slate roofs, hipped, with early C18 red brick stack at right angles to ridge. T-plan with range projecting to the road and parlour wing of three bays forming a crosswing. At the rear of the parlour wing is a two bay kitchen. Two storeys. Elevations date from early-mid C19. Garden front original main facade. Two flush frame hung sashes with margin lights. Similar fenestration on either side of doorway to lobby entry, now blocked. Crosswing now has one window at ground and first floor and glazed door. This crosswing was extended mid-late C20 with a jetty at the rear. The kitchen at the rear of the parlour crosswing is also framed, of two bays and one storey. It has a large stack of red brick. Inside:- Framing exposed, and the reuse of old material is suggested by one jowled post and others which are plain. The main beams and lintel over the inglenook are unmoulded. There is a smaller abutting hearth to the room to the road. The kitchen at the rear of the parlour may indicate that the house was subdivided and a kitchen added, or alternatively, that the household expanded and the former kitchen became a parlour. The development probably took place over a short time. Brickwork and framing is similar throughout the house. The rear kitchen has original bread oven adjoining the inglenook.
Listing NGR: TL3851144950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52221
- 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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