74, HIGH STREET

74, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162690
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
74, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
74, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162690
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
74, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
74, 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
74, 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 56287 46804

Details

TL 5646 LINTON HIGH STREET (South Side)

16/161 No. 74 GV II

House, formerly a house and butcher's shop. Late C15 with late C17 and late C19 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered; C19 painted gault brick. Plain tiled roofs. C17 red brick ridge stack to right of centre. Two storeys; original hall house with cross wings raised to two storeys in late C17 with chimney stack inserted into hall. Cross wing to west extended at the same time to south linking main range to C16 industrial building, inserting two chimney stacks and converting part of the building to kitchen and service rooms. East wing extended to south in C19 for staircase, passage cut through main stack to entrance, and alterations made for a shop with single storey flat roofed extension between the wings; large three-light shop window flanked by glazed-panelled house and shop doors and two sixteen-paned hung sash windows. Four first floor twelve-paned hung sash windows. Late C19 brick facing to C17 cartway to left hand with double boarded doors and segmental brick arch and twelve-paned hung sash window above. Fire rings attached to cornice in rear elevation. Interior: Late C17 cornice and chimney piece to first floor room. Crown post roof to east cross wing, exposed timber-frame and floor frame. C16 industrial building originally with two two-bayed barns flanking two floored central bays, with side purlin wind braced roof, was possibly used for coopering.

Millicent, R Map of Linton, 1600. Pembroke College Wherry, G W Fire Hooks and Rings, Vol. XII, p235 P.C.A.S. R.C.H.M. Report 1951

Listing NGR: TL5628746804

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
51975
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vol. 12, (1908), 235

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.

Ordnance survey map of 74, HIGH STREET

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