Flaxmans

131, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162606
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Flaxmans
Statutory Address:
131, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162606
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Flaxmans
Statutory Address 1:
131, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
135, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 3:
FLAXMANS, 133, HIGH STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
131, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
135, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
FLAXMANS, 133, 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:
Linton
National Grid Reference:
TL 56503 46826

Details

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET (North Side)

16/145 Nos. 131, 133 (Flaxmans) and No. 135 GV II

Three dwellings formerly one house. Late C16 with late C17 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered with C19 painted brick facade to street. Plain tile roofs. Ridge stacks, both rebuilt, to left hand, and to right of centre with three diagonal shafts. Two storey three unit plan with attics and rear stair turret and chimney stacks inserted in late C17, refronted and divided into three dwellings in C19. Street elevation; three panelled doors with rectangular fanlights, four ground floor four-paned hung sash windows recessed in cambered brick arches. Four similar first floor windows. Interior: sealed hearths to main stack, exposed chamfered brick hearths to first and ground floor rooms to (No. 131) at east end with plaster panels above and plaster cornices partly damaged; wall painting in chimney panel of first floor room an architectural roofscape design in blues and ochres. Ovolo stopped axial beam to No. 133 with boarded ceiling with reeded fillets; winding stair with octagonal newel post terminating in simple carved finial at attic floor.

Listing NGR: TL5650346826

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
51959
Legacy System:
LBS

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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