Chestnut Cottage
CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 118 AND 120, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163398
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 118 AND 120, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163398
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 118 AND 120, 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:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE, 118 AND 120, 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:
- Balsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5801050884
Details
TL 5850
11/15
BALSHAM
HIGH STREET
(North Side)
Nos 118 and 120
(Chestnut Cottage)
GV
II
House, now two dwellings. Mid C17 and late C17. Timber framed, rendered and
modern tiles. Original red brick ridge stack with grouped shafts set
diagonally. Later C17 stack to north east end. C19 stack to south west end.
Lobby entry and three bay plan extended axially at north east end by one
bay. Two storeys. Four first floor windows. Doorway to lobby entry, with
early C18 doorcase. Pulvinated frieze and door hood with panelled soffit.
Six raised and fielded panelled door. Late C17 extension also framed,
rendered and tiled. Two storeys. Interior retains original plan and
partition walls. Inserted staircase following subdivision arid blocked
inglenooks.
Listing NGR: TL5801050884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51216
- 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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