55, HIGH STREET
55, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128348
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128348
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, 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:
- 55, 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:
- Orwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36600 50434
Details
ORWELL HIGH STREET TL 3650 (North side) 14/275 No. 55 GV II
House. Probably late C16 origin, but mid C17 crosswing, and C19 main range. Renovated and extended late C20. Timber framed, rendered and tiled roofs. mid-late C17 red brick and clunch stack between main range and crosswing. Two storeys. Crosswing originally jettied at both south and north ends. The north end jetty has been removed and the wing extended, late C20. The jetty on the front has shaped brackets but is otherwise obscured. Late C20 fenestration to one window opening at each storey and to the east wall. However in the west wall of the crosswing there are ovolo moulded mullions to an original window opening. Two, three-light windows with larger lights and unmoulded mullions are on the first floor of the east wall. Window of two lights in west wall, at the rear. Now partly obscured. C19 main range is a rebuild of the original hall. Brick, painted and tiled. Two storeys. Doorway, inserted opposite the stack. Rear gable stairturret and possible garderobe between main range and crosswing. Framed, rendered and tiled. Interior: Part of the chimney breast of the late C16 house is visible from the roof. The chimney was widened and rebuilt later in C17 when the crosswing was added. The hearths are of clunch and red brick. Roofs have been mostly rebuilt, including that of the crosswing although a pair of rafters remains. Clasped side purlin roof. Arch braced ties and jowled posts to first floor chamber. Smaller hearth to this room. Framing of varied scantling, and generally typical of later C17. Original roof over stair turret.
R.C.H.M.: West Cambs. Mon. (20)
Listing NGR: TL3660050434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52327
- 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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