Terra Cotta Cottage
TERRA COTTA COTTAGE, MOAT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162556
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Terra Cotta Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TERRA COTTA COTTAGE, MOAT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162556
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Terra Cotta Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TERRA COTTA COTTAGE, MOAT 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:
- TERRA COTTA COTTAGE, MOAT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbots Ripton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23255 77899
Details
TL 2377 ABBOTS RIPTON MOAT LANE
(South side)
16/15 Terra Cotta Cottage
GV II
Cottage. C16 core but mostly C17 frame. Extended on south side mid-late C2O. Timber framed, plaster rendered and reed thatched roof with local gault brick
ridge stack. Single range plan of three bays. One storey and attic. One boxed dormer and three modern ground floor wood casements. Doorway in modern brick porch to centre bay. Inside: Inglenook of red brick with C18-C19 bread oven and abutting C18 hearth to former parlour. The core of the C16 house is visible at first floor. Two pairs of intermediate posts remain. One pair abutting the present chimney bay has downward wall bracing in the north wall. The C17 cottage had a single storey bay at the east end. This bay has had the roof raised. The original wall plate and tie beam remain.
RCHM: Hunts mon (9)
Listing NGR: TL2325577899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54649
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926)
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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