Norfolk House

NORFOLK HOUSE, LINTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127941
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
Norfolk House
Statutory Address:
NORFOLK HOUSE, LINTON ROAD
November 2018
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127941
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
Norfolk House
Statutory Address 1:
NORFOLK HOUSE, LINTON ROAD

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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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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:
NORFOLK HOUSE, LINTON ROAD

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Horseheath
National Grid Reference:
TL6118347176

Details

TL 6147
20/79
22.11.67

HORSEHEATH
LINTON ROAD
(South Side)
Norfolk House

II

Cottage. C16 crosswing and C17 main range. Timber-framed, rendered and reed
thatched. C17 red brick ridge stack to main range and inserted ridge stack
to crosswing, also C17. Crosswing of two storeys. Jettied first floor on
shaped brackets with exposed first floor flaming of close set studwork.
Three bays and probably a solar wing to a hall house. One modern window to
each storey at gable end, but a long shutter groove in the wall plate of the
north wall indicates the site of an earlier window. In the east wall there
are traces of a two-light window with diamond mullion. Main range. Two
storeys and attic. Two dormers. Two first floor hung sashes and two ground
floor windows, including a C17 horizontal sliding sash on either side of
doorway to baffle-entry. Inside: Crosswing has joists laid flat. The
chimney stack was inserted into this wing. The ground floor was originally
one room as was the first floor. Cambered tiebeams with shallow bracing and
a chamfered crownpost unbraced. Main range in three bays. Stop chamfered
axial beams and joists.

R.C.H.M. Record Card (1977)

Listing NGR: TL6118347176

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
51282
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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