Abington Pottery
ABINGTON POTTERY, 26, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127657
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Abington Pottery
- Statutory Address:
- ABINGTON POTTERY, 26, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127657
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abington Pottery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABINGTON POTTERY, 26, 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:
- ABINGTON POTTERY, 26, 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:
- Little Abington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53308 49176
Details
TL 5249 LITTLE ABINGTON HIGH STREET (South-West Side)
9/36 No. 26 22.11.67 (Abington Pottery) (formerly listed as Nos 33, 35 and GV II* 37)
House. Late C15 or early C16 with mid to late C16 and late C18 or early C19 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with plain tiled roofs. Red brick ridge stack to left hand and external stack to right hand gable. Open hall with two storey bay to north-west and cross wing to south-east originally jettied to the street. Boarded door to right hand; four ground floor casement windows include three with transomed-lights and two-centred wooden heads, and one similar first floor cross wing window, and one original six-light moulded mullioned window. Interior: Cross wing of three timber-framed bays with crown post roof and internal partitions, one original three-centred arched door head. Cross passage behind inserted hearth with original external entrances now blocked; open hall of two timber-framed bays with smoke blackened, wind braced side purlin roof with evidence for an earlier floor and partition in north-western bay. Inserted stack with hearth partly sealed and inserted roll-moulded ceiling beams; closed truss to north-west of hall with no apparent entry to two rooms of end bay. Late C16 or early C17 hearth to north-west ground floor room with staircase in outshut to rear. Traces of vermilion paint on bricks and some timbers. Two C17 doors, one with bolection moulded panels and one panelled. The house was converted to three dwellings in c.1830 and was renovated by the Cambridge Cottage Improvement Society in 1934; it became a pottery in 1964.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p4
Listing NGR: TL5330849176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52017
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 4
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
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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