The Smithy
THE SMITHY, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128007
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- THE SMITHY, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128007
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Smithy
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SMITHY, THE GREEN
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:
- THE SMITHY, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thriplow and Heathfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 43672 46670
Details
TL 4246 THRIPLOW THE GREEN 13/294 The Smithy GV II Smithy. Mid C19. Clunch with gault brick dressings dentil eaves cornice and stack. Weatherboarded timber-frame above eaves and to lean-to. Pantiled half hipped roof. Single storey with cartshed lean-to to east end. Boarded stable door to right hand with shuttered window; similar window to left hand. Double boarded door to cartshed. Slate plaque inscribed 'This Smithy presented to Thriplow in year AD 1964 by Robert J. Younger Esq formerly of Thriplow Place. The Smithy was last in use c.1960. V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.239
Listing NGR: TL4367246670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 239
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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