The Old Cottage
THE OLD COTTAGE, 56, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162581
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, 56, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162581
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, 56, 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 OLD COTTAGE, 56, 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:
- Bourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3253356406
Details
TL 3256-3356
15/39
BOURN
HIGH STREET
(South-West Side)
No 56
(The Old Cottage)
GV
II
Cottage. Late C17 with early C19 alterations possibly by Repton and C20
addition. Timber-framed with rough cast render: plastered plinth. Thatched
roofs with two red brick gable end stacks. One storey and attics, L-plan.
Walls raised in C19 of original east-west range and gable to west rebuilt
with octagonal shafted stack and applied timber-frame. Main entrance in C20
leanto with half glazed door, two ground floor casement windows and two
casement dormer windows. Interior has stop-chamfered ceiling beams.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs. p23, mon.4
Listing NGR: TL3253356406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51062
- 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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