Livemore House
LIVEMORE HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127674
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Livemore House
- Statutory Address:
- LIVEMORE HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127674
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Livemore House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIVEMORE HOUSE, 117, 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:
- LIVEMORE HOUSE, 117, 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:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 56417 46839
Details
TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET (North Side)
16/141 No. 117 (Livemore House) (formerly listed as No 121) GV II
House. Early C17 with late C17 alterations and C18, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with plain tile roofs. Large ridge stack of red brick with upper courses rebuilt; external gable end stack to right hand with offsets and two rebuilt diagonal shafts. Two storeys with attics, early C18 single storey range to rear, stair turret possibly rebuilt, and outshut. Three unit plan with main entrance in lobby entry position, C20 gabled porch with shaped barge boards and six-panelled door. Two C20 canted bay windows to right hand and transomed window to left hand with similar casements. Three three-light first floor casement windows; three gabled dormer windows with single lights replacing original three-light casements. Plastered plinth. Interior: Attic floor, inserted in late C17, partly masks wall painting on west face of plastered stack with a design of leaf forms and stylistic flowers in grey and black with some traces of foliage design on first floor fireplace. Fireplaces with brick jambs. Reused timber exposed in floor frames. Original partition between rooms to east removed. Painted boarded door. The house was built on the site used for the vicarage from 1280-1473; it was used as the Unionist Club in 1913.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951 and c.1970 V.C.H. Vol. VI p100 Palmer, W.M. The Antiquities of Linton, 1913 CC
Listing NGR: TL5641746839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978)
Palmer, W M, The Antiquities of Linton, (1913)
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
Report on Livemore House Linton Cambridgeshire, (1970)
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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