FIVE GABLES FARMHOUSE

FIVE GABLES FARMHOUSE, BUCKS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163252
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: FIVE GABLES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: FIVE GABLES FARMHOUSE, BUCKS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163252
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: FIVE GABLES FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FIVE GABLES FARMHOUSE, BUCKS LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FIVE GABLES FARMHOUSE, BUCKS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Little Eversden
National Grid Reference:: TL 36972 53433

Details

TL 3653 LITTLE EVERSDEN BUCKS LANE

12/124 Five Gables 22.11.67 Farmhouse GV II*

House. Late medieval open-hall and C17-extensions to west and south, the latter forming a crosswing. Floor and stack inserted into the open hall. Timber-framed, part exposed, and part rendered, and tiled roofs with ridge stack at junction of open hall and crosswing to the south. C17 external stack between south and west wings. Open hall of two bays with through passage at north end. Two storeys. Floor inserted in C17. Studwork and downward wall bracing. Modern fenestration. Crosswing of four bays. Two storeys and attic. Exposed framing of close studwork and downward bracing. Restored original window openings. Two leaded light casements, one with original mullions and a hung sash at first floor. Four leaded light casements at ground floor. Interior: open hall has crown-post roof with four way upward and downward bracing. The tie beam is arch braced and has ogee moulding which is carried down the wall posts. The roof is wind braced, has the mortices for a louvre, and is smoke blackened. The inserted ceiling in the hall has a main beam with a moulding of a hollow and two ovolos. The south crosswing has two rooms, each with the ceiling divided by intersecting main beams. There is some reset early C17 panelling.

R.C.H.M.: West Cambs. Mon. (5)

Listing NGR: TL3697253433

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Legacy System number:: 52176
Legacy System:: LBS

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.