Michael House
MICHAEL HOUSE, 29, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127615
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Michael House
- Statutory Address:
- MICHAEL HOUSE, 29, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127615
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Michael House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MICHAEL HOUSE, 29, 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:
- MICHAEL HOUSE, 29, 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:
- Foxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 40942 48219
Details
TL 4048 FOXTON HIGH STREET (North west side) 18/61 No. 29 11.12.81 (Michaelhouse) GV II
Pair of cottages, now one dwelling. c.1575 in origin but remodelled and rebuilt in early C18, for Trinity College. Timber framed,,plaster rendered and long stray thatch. Original axial ridge stack of two flues with a third flue added. Single range and two bay plan with end to road. One storey and attic. One horizontal sliding sash to gable end, and two to front wall. One doorway to cottage near the road, the other doorway has been blocked and part glazed. Thatched and timber framed outshut at the rear. Inside: Abutting inglenook hearths of red and gault brick and a small later fireplace to chamber in the attic. Framing of slender scantling and without the bracing found in the late C16 buildings in the village. (e.g. nos. 5, 61 and 75 High Street).
R.C.H.M.: Record Card (1950) Rowland Parker: The Common Stream
Listing NGR: TL4094248219
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52110
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parker, R, The Common Stream, ()
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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