The Limes
THE LIMES, 57, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128310
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, 57, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128310
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, 57, 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 LIMES, 57, 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:
- Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33415 44002
Details
TL 3243 TL3244 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH HIGH STREET (North Side) 20/261 15/261 No 57 (The Limes) II
House. Late C16 or early C17 with C19 alterations and addition. Timber-framed cased in reused C18 red brick. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with attics. Rectangular planned red brick stack to main range and gault brick stack to projecting east wing. Hipped C20 porch with boarded door, two flanking canted bay windows with transomed casements. Two three-light transomed casement windows at first floor; two small hipped dormer windows. Tall transomed casement windows to east wing with patterned blind arch above first floor window, patterned barge board with drop finial, and ridge tiles.
VCH Vol VIII
Listing NGR: TL3341544002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52437
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982)
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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