King Alfred's House
KING ALFRED'S HOUSE, 16, RIDDY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162629
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- King Alfred's House
- Statutory Address:
- KING ALFRED'S HOUSE, 16, RIDDY LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162629
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- King Alfred's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING ALFRED'S HOUSE, 16, RIDDY 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:
- KING ALFRED'S HOUSE, 16, RIDDY LANE
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:
- TL3233956574
Details
TL 3256-3356
15/44
BOURN
RIDDY LANE
(North-West Side)
No 16
King Alfred's House)
II
House. Possibly c.1616 or earlier and C18. Exposed and plastered
timber-frame, thatched and plain tile roofs. Tall C17 red brick ridge stack,
C18 end stack to right hand with upper courses rebuilt. Two storeys, one
storey kitchen range to left hand with inserted C18 floor. Boarded door in
lobby entry position, three large C20 casement windows, two first floor
casement windows. Two original small fixed-light ovolo-moulded windows in
south-east and north-east facades. Interior has stop-chamfered ceiling
beams, exposed timber frame and large stack dated 1616 on bressumer to main
hearth, openings to baking oven in kitchen hearth.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs. p23, mon.6 Plate 78
Listing NGR: TL3233956574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51073
- 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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