Dormers
DORMERS, 2, SWAYNES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161444
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dormers
- Statutory Address:
- DORMERS, 2, SWAYNES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161444
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dormers
- Statutory Address 1:
- DORMERS, 2, SWAYNES LANE
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:
- DORMERS, 2, SWAYNES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Comberton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38248 56017
Details
TL 3856 COMBERTON SWAYNES LANE (South Side)
9/45 No. 2 (Dormers)
GV II
Cottage. Early-mid C16 and two later enlargements of C17 and C18. Timber-framed, plaster and roughcast rendered, and reed thatched roofs. Original ridge stack of narrow, red brick, broad mortar courses, and rebuilt upper courses of grey brick. Original cottage of three bay, lobby entry plan, extended by a fourth bay to one end probably in C17. One storey and attic. Three dormers. Three casements and doorway in original location opposite the stack. In the rear wall an early C19 horizontall sliding sash with segmental arched top panes. Bread oven projects from rear wall. At the rear is an outhouse or service wing, originally detached, now converted to living and linked to the C16 cottage. Timber-framed, plaster rendered and reed thatched with single flue stack of grey brick, probably early C19. One storey and attic. Two dormers. Three ground floor casements and originally two doors, one now blocked. Inside: Timber-framing of C16 cottage of heavy, uniform scantling similar to that of C16 bay at No. 69 Swaynes Lane (qv). Floor frame of one end bay exposed. Broad stop-chamfered main beam with unmoulded joists laid on edge. The main beam in the centre room has leaf stop chamfered main beam. Abutting inglenook hearths. Roof trusses of through-purlin type and original half-hipping to ends. Jowelled heads to principal posts. The late C17 single bay addition to the end has timbers of slender scantling.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(10)
Listing NGR: TL3824856017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51663
- 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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