Owldom the Hermitage Water Meadow

OWLDOM, KINGS MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127860
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1982
List Entry Name:
Owldom the Hermitage Water Meadow
Statutory Address:
OWLDOM, KINGS MILL LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127860
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1982
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Owldom the Hermitage Water Meadow
Statutory Address 1:
OWLDOM, KINGS MILL LANE
Statutory Address 2:
THE HERMITAGE, KINGS MILL LANE
Statutory Address 3:
WATER MEADOW, KINGS MILL LANE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OWLDOM, KINGS MILL LANE
Statutory Address:
THE HERMITAGE, KINGS MILL LANE
Statutory Address:
WATER MEADOW, KINGS MILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Shelford
National Grid Reference:
TL4575451562

Details

TL 4551 GREAT SHELFORD KINGS MILL LANE

19/85 Water Meadow, Owldom,
10.9.82 The Hermitage
(formerly listed as
GV Watermeadow)

II


Cottages, early C19 originally ranges of mill workers cottages
with warehousing, granary and workshop at the south end.
Restored mid C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded with pantiled
and thatched roof of long straw. Red brick and grey gault brick
stacks. One storey and attics. Three original gable dormers
with horizontal sliding sashes and small panes. Four C20
casements at ground floor. The cottage to the south, originally
the warehouse and granary, is of one storey and attic and has a
hoist opening in the roof and two cat-slide dormers. A jettied
wing at the rear is also framed, weatherboarded and pantiled.
R.C.H.M: record card


Listing NGR: TL4575451562

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
51490
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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