The Oak House
THE OAK HOUSE, 105, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128078
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Oak House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OAK HOUSE, 105, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128078
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Oak House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OAK HOUSE, 105, HIGH 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:
- THE OAK HOUSE, 105, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49446 45491
Details
TL 4845 HINXTON HIGH STREET (West Side) 20/174 No. 105 (The Oak 22.11.67 House) GV II* Courthouse or woolhall converted in late C16 or later to domestic use, restored c.1930, architect Col Elliot. Close-studded timber-frame with plastered panels and C20 red brick nogging at ground floor. Plain tiled roof. Ridge stack to right of centre, end stack to right hand and side stack to rear rebuilt or partly rebuilt with dentil brick cornices. Two storeys with inserted attic floors. Five original equal bays divided by closed truss to two rooms at each floor with three bays to south rooms and two bays to north, (rebuilding of west wall may be evidence for a wing or staircase). Street elevation: Gable end jetty to left hand; main entrance in second bay from south with plank door. Four ground floor and five first floor c.1930 iron casement windows with leaded lights. Interior: Double ogee-moulded cross beams, defaced corbels to posts of main south room. Cambered tie beams with hollow-chamfered solid braces and with octagonal crown posts braced to collar purlin; plain crown posts and unmoulded tie beam to north room. Paintings seen in south room 1951 not visible. C16 and C17 oak panelling reset. R.C.H.M. Report, 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p221
Listing NGR: TL4944645491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 221
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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