Lower Farmhouse
LOWER FARMHOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163467
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163467
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE, 117, 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:
- LOWER FARMHOUSE, 117, 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:
- TL 58112 50811
Details
BALSHAM HIGH STREET TL 5850 (South Side) 11/22 No 117 (Lower Farmhouse) GV II House. C17, C19. Timber framed, wattle and daub infill, and plaster render. Flint plinth. Modern tile roof and red brick ridge stack. Originally three bay and lobby entry plan. Two storeys and attic. Two early C19 gable eaves dormers, with bargeboarding and original casements with pointed top panes. Two later C19 first floor casements and three at ground floor. Doorway to lobby now with modern porch. Extended by one bay at east end. C19. Clay bat on brick plinth. Tiled roof. Two storeys. One similar casement to each storey. A rebuilt rear ranye incorporates an early C19 casement with pointed top panes. Interior: Passage constructed through chimney stack in C19. Service bay at west end has heavy ceiling joists laid flat. Some moulded main beams. Tenoned purlin roof in line. The attic stair is original.
R.C.H.M: record card
Listing NGR: TL5811250811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51223
- 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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