Thistle Down Cottage
THISTLE DOWN COTTAGE, 10, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127809
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Thistle Down Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THISTLE DOWN COTTAGE, 10, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127809
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Thistle Down Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THISTLE DOWN COTTAGE, 10, WEST 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:
- THISTLE DOWN COTTAGE, 10, WEST STREET
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 38023 56224
Details
TL 3856 COMBERTON WEST STREET (North Side)
9/55 No. 10 (Thistle Down cottage
GV II
House. Probably late C17. Renovated mid C20. Timber-frame, now exposed, with rendered infill and tiled roofs and gablet to one end. Ridge stack to main range. Late C17 red brick with narrow central recess and repaired upper courses. East-west hall range with contemporary crosswing. Hall of one storey and attic. One mid C20 dormer and three mid C20 casements, one possibly on site of the original doorway. Crosswing of two storeys and attic. One casement to attic and two small pane horizontal sliding sashes to each of the storeys. Side elevation includes one blocked three-light casement at first floor and a mid C20 porch to doorway. Timber-framing of fairly slender scantling with straight upward and downward bracing. Staggered studwork over braces.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(23) Plate 60
Listing NGR: TL3802356224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51673
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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