53 AND 55, MILL STREET
53 AND 55, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163775
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, MILL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53 AND 55, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163775
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 55, MILL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53 AND 55, MILL 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:
- 53 AND 55, MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gamlingay
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23769 51939
Details
GAMLINGAY MILL STREET TL 25SW (East side) 3/81 Nos 53 and 55
GV II
Terrace of two cottages. 1721 (dated brick panel to front wall). Local red brick, Flemish bond on high plinth, part rendered and sandstone rubble footings. The south end wall is now roughcast rendered. Tiled roof and shared axial ridge stack. Plain eaves cornice of three courses. One storey and attic. Four gable dormers. Four hung sashes in slightly enlarged openings. Each cottage has a flight of four repaired steps up to front door. The panel is moulded brick with the initials MB and date 1727. Associated with a charity originating in the will of Thomas Handley, proved 1740, for the benefit of the minister of the Baptist Chapel (qv). The initials MWNB may possibly refer to members of the Bass family who are recorded as being in Gamlingay in C16. By C18 this property was in the ownership of the Huckle family.
RCHM: West Cambs mon (35) VCH: Cambs vol V p85 Pevsner: Buildings of England p391 C Brown: Mss Notes (1985)
Listing NGR: TL2376951939
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52744
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 85
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 391
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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