Orchard Cottage
ORCHARD COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164469
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164469
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE
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:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westley Waterless
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62042 56236
Details
TL 65 NW WESTLEY WATERLESS
6/172 Orchard Cottage
II
Cottage. Late C13 or early C14 with C15 and C16 additions and alterations. Timber-framed and plastered, tile hung at first floor. Thatched roof with red brick and earlier local brick end stacks. Stack to left hand partly rebuilt. Plain tile roof to C19 gable lean-to at right hand. One storey and attic. Open hall with two surviving bays, and bay to north-east rebuilt in C15 and late C16 as jettied cross-wing. Further bay added to north-east reusing a deeply moulded C14 ceiling beam. Demolished south-west bay of the hall replaced by gable wall with external stack late C16 and possibly later than the inserted framed ceiling. Original features include hall window exposed at first floor with diamond mullions, splayed scarf- joint with under squinted butts in wall plate, and similar scarf in closed truss to north-east of hall with crown post and fragment of collar purlin, smoke blackened. One post of display truss with mortice for arch brace. Roof rebuilt in late C16. RCHM (Cambs. notes), 1953.
Listing NGR: TL6204256236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49250
- 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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