The George
THE GEORGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130204
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The George
- Statutory Address:
- THE GEORGE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130204
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The George
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GEORGE, 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 GEORGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spaldwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 12922 72806
Details
TL 17 SW SPALDWICK HIGH STREET (North Side)
6/131 The George 21.7.51
GV II*
C16 and C17 inn, timber framed and plastered, plain tile roofs. The earliest two storey building of hall and jettied crosswing with half-hipped roof was extended in early C17 to west by a further room and a gabled crosswing of two storeys with attics. Crosswing linked by covered way at first floor level to late timber framed barn to west. Central ridge stack to crosswing, end stack to east and good, C17 ridge stack to main range with two -shafts bridged by a round headed arch. Four first floor windows include three horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars. Four, three-light horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars at ground floor with one small bay window. Main entrance has half-glazed door, and panelled door to right hand. Interior has large inglenook hearths moulded and stop- chamfered ceiling beams. Wall paintings, possibly early C17 in first floor room of four large figures dressed for hunting. VCH (Hunts) p13. RCHM (Hunts) p244. Norris Museum, St. Ives. Inskip Ladds Collection. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p345. Trans. Cambs & Hunts Arch Soc. Vol.VI, p49.
Listing NGR: TL1292272806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 244
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 345
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 13
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaelogical Society Transactions in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaelogical Society Transactions, Vol. 6, (), 49
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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