Thornberry Hill Cottages
THORNBERRY HILL COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128136
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Thornberry Hill Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- THORNBERRY HILL COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128136
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Thornberry Hill Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNBERRY HILL COTTAGES
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:
- THORNBERRY HILL COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimpole
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33960 51669
Details
WIMPOLE OLD WIMPOLE TL 3351 (West side) 13/160 Thornberry Hill 29.10.74 Cottages (formerly listed as Brick End Cottages)
II
Row of estate cottages. C18 and C19. Red brick and tiled half hipped roof with plain brick eaves cornice and three ridge stacks with projecting capping. Two storeys and attic and plat band between storeys. Six hipped dormers with tiled cheeks. Six window range of recessed cross frame casements. Similar windows ground floor and doorway with boarded door under lean-to canopies on brackets. A row of similar brick cottages is shown in a water-colour by Humfry Repton for his remodelling of the park in 1801. His survey map of 1801 also shows four semi detached pairs.
RCHM: West Cambs. Mon (5) National Trust: Watercolour and plan at Wimpole Hall
Listing NGR: TL3396051669
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52826
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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