Glebe Cottage
GLEBE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127798
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127798
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- GLEBE COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Comberton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38395 55486
Details
TL 35 NE COMBERTON CHURCH LANE (South Side)
3/29 Glebe Cottage (Formerly listed 31. 8.62 as The Old vicarage)
II* GV Cottage C14-C15 open hall, and C17. Timber-framed, plaster rendered and combed wheat reed thatch, hipped to crosswing and half-hipped to hall. Single flue red brick ridge stack. Original plan of hall and two crosswings, but crosswing to the right hand was removed probably in C19. Hall of one storey and attic. One dormer and one shuttered C19 horizontal sliding sash. Crosswing of two storeys, jettied on first floor. One casement. above a full-length casement at ground floor. Adjoining the crosswing is a leanto, also timber-framed and thatched and probably C18. Inside: The open hall and one crosswing remain from C14-C15 house. Rebates fit were probably two doorways can be seen in the end wall, which would have led to the crosswing, probably demolished in C19. In the C16 the floor and red brick chimney were inserted into the open hall. The framing is substantially intact. The two bay hall has a display truss with deep arch bracing to the tiebeam and a crownpost roof. The post is square with stop chamfered corners and two-way curved upward bracing to the collar purlin and two-way downward bracing to the tiebeam. The roof is sooted. There is a closed truss between the hall and crosswing with access at ground floor, though the original doorway is no longer visible. The framing in this wall is substantial with upward angle bracing from the continuous centre post to the middle rail. The crosswing is of two bays. The floor framing is of large joists laid flat. This roof has been rebuilt probably in C17 or C18. In the wallplate to the east is a splayed scarf joint, probably of C14, and a window opening, now blocked, with sites for diamond mullions. R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(2) Plate 60 = Mercer, E: English Vernacular Houses (R.C.H.M.), p116
Listing NGR: TL3839555486
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51646
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975), 116
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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