The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, 6, TOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127665
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 6, TOWN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127665
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 6, TOWN 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.
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 RECTORY, 6, TOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pampisford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49733 48045
Details
TL 4848 PAMPISFORD TOWN LANE (South Side)
10/212 No. 6 (The Old 22.11.67 Rectory) (formerly listed as Post Office Cottage)
II
Cottage, formerly the rectory till c.1840. Early C16 and C17 with C19 addition. Timber-framed with plastered infill and plaster covered; painted brick. Slated roofs. Two storeys. Jettied cross wing of two timber-framed bays with C17 outshut to west for staircase, and evidence for main range to east in rear elevation, replaced by C19 extension of one bay. Four jetty brackets springing from slender wooden pilasters flank original window opening, (possibly an oriel), and doorway to left hand. Carved spandrels to door head with four-centred arch possibly an insertion, the modern C20 boarded door is in the original window position. One C20 first floor casement window above entrance. C19 extension has one first floor casement window and one four-paned hung sash window. Gable end stack to east and side stack to south. Interior: exposed floor frame and timber-frame with cranked braces to tie beam in central truss.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p111
Listing NGR: TL4973348045
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52042
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 111
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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