Toll Gate Cottage
TOLL GATE COTTAGE, 2, LINTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161701
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Toll Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TOLL GATE COTTAGE, 2, LINTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161701
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Toll Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOLL GATE COTTAGE, 2, LINTON ROAD
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:
- TOLL GATE COTTAGE, 2, LINTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Abington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5331748790
Details
TL 5348
11/24
GREAT ABINGTON
LINTON ROAD
(South Side)
No. 2 (Toll Gate Cottage)
GV
II
Cottage. Late C18, C20 renovation. Timber-framed and plastered with
thatched roofs. C19 ridge stack. Two one storey ranges linked possibly in
early C19. Range to north-east of two units with original entrance from
north-east; south-west range with half cellar. C20 main entrance in angle
with boarded door; two windows to north-east elevation, one an original C18
casement with leaded lights. The Cambridge road was turnpiked in 1765,
several toll gate cottages were built shortly afterwards. The ridge stack
may replace an earlier framed chimney.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951
V.C.H. Vol.VI, p4
Listing NGR: TL5331748790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51866
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 4
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
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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