Cudworth Cottage

Cudworth Cottage, 20, High Street, Great Wilbraham, CB21 5JD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127871
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:
Cudworth Cottage
Statutory Address:
Cudworth Cottage, 20, High Street, Great Wilbraham, CB21 5JD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127871
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:
Cudworth Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Cudworth Cottage, 20, High Street, Great Wilbraham, CB21 5JD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Cudworth Cottage, 20, High Street, Great Wilbraham, CB21 5JD

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Wilbraham
National Grid Reference:
TL5496857355

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/04/2018

TL 5457
13/109

GREAT WILBRAHAM
HIGH STREET (north west side)
No 20 (Cudworth Cottage)

(Formerly listed as Nos.18 and 20 (Cudworth Cottage)

16.3.82

GV
II
Cottage, c.1647 with bay to left hand added mid C20. Timber framed rendered with steeply pitched roof of long straw and grey gault brick ridge stack and end stack. Original plan of three bays and lobby entry. Two storeys. Four windows at first floor including three horizontal sliding sashes. Three similar windows, all shuttered at ground floor and two boarded doors, one opposite the stack.

Interior: has exposed framing and stop chamfered main beams. There are abutting inglenooks, and at first floor two rooms are open to the roof. The house is associated with Rev. Ralph Cudworth, Curate of Great Wilbraham from c.1647.

R.C.H.M: Record card

Listing NGR: TL5496857355

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
51514
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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