Gildencroft
GILDENCROFT, 82, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127719
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gildencroft
- Statutory Address:
- GILDENCROFT, 82, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-03-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/08222/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127719
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gildencroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- GILDENCROFT, 82, 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:
- GILDENCROFT, 82, 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:
- Great Abington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5319748706
Details
TL 5348
11/15
GREAT ABINGTON
HIGH STREET
(North-West Side)
No. 82 (Gildencroft)
GV
II*
Cottage. C15 with mid C16 and C17 alterations. Timber-framed and
plastered. Half hipped thatched roof. One storey and attic, three unit plan
with original floored ends. Boarded door to left hand, five ground floor
windows of various sizes with glazing bars. Large three-light ejjebrow dormer
window. Ridge stack to left of centre with upper courses of gault brick, end
stack to right hand. Interior: substantial timber-frame complete with wide
braces trenched over the studs and nailed, and interrupted tie beam to north
gable. Posts of display truss of open hall masked by plaster, tie beam and
braces removed for inserted C16 floor with roll-moulded axial beam and
joists. Square sectioned joists axially laid to north-east and iaouth-west
rooms. Large inglenook hearth with shaped head to niche, and baking oven
complete, possibly mid C17. Collar rafter roof with smoke blackened timbers
over the original hall. The cottage is sited at the junction of the former
road to Bourn Bridge from Linton marked by a stone cross noted in the C19.
Map. Gt. Abington 1687, C.R.O.
Listing NGR: TL5319748706
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51857
- 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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