Four Mile House
FOUR MILE HOUSE, 1 AND 3, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163891
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Four Mile House
- Statutory Address:
- FOUR MILE HOUSE, 1 AND 3, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163891
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Four Mile House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUR MILE HOUSE, 1 AND 3, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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:
- FOUR MILE HOUSE, 1 AND 3, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Shelford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4603552681
Details
In the entry for;
GREAT SHELFORD CAMBRIDGE ROAD
(South-west side
TL 4652 No 5
18/56 (Four Mile House)
GV
II
The address shall be amended to read; CAMBRIDGE ROAD
(South-west side)
1 and 3
(Four Mile House)
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TL 4652 GREAT SHELFORD CAMBRIDGE ROAD
(South West Side)
18/56 No 5 (Four Mile House)
GV II
House mainly c.1700 but incorporating part of C15 house in rear
wing. C19 and C20 minor alterations and additions. Timber
framed, plaster rendered and pargetted panels. Steeply pitched,
plain tiled roof with original moulded wood eaves. Cornice and
red brick ridge stack at junction of front and rear ranges. Two
ranges forming an L-plan. Two storeys. Fenestration of three
flush frame hung sashes with vertical glazing bars, mid-C19. At
ground floor three hung sashes, including two with sixteen
panes. Off-centre doorway. Early C19 doorcase with moulded
architrave, flat hood and panelled door. Interior: The rear
range contains part of a C15 open-hall which has been remodelled
in C17. Most of a tie beam with substantial arch bracing
survives and, in the roof above the sooted rafters on one side,
are now incorporated in typical C17 staggered butt purl in roof.
The front range is in three bays with a narrower stair and entry
bay. The internal details, e.g. the staircase with toads-back
mahogany rail and square section balusters to the open-string,
are of the early C19. The roof over this front part of the
house is also of a similar butt-purlin type. The house was the
home of G.G. Coulton, the medieval historian.
R.C.H.M: record card.
Listing NGR: TL4603552681
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51461
- 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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