59, HIGH STREET
59, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165001
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 59, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 59, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165001
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 59, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 59, 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:
- 59, 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:
- Orwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36626 50431
Details
ORWELL HIGH STREET TL 3650 (North side) 14/276 No. 59 (formerly listed 17.3.78 as Nos 59 and 61) GV II
House, c.1600 with bay to east end rebuilt or added C19. Timber framed, plaster rendered and thatched. Two ridge stacks, both C19 insertions. The original ridge stack has been removed, although the inglenook remains. Two bays survive of the c.1600 house. Two storeys. Two small modern casements at first floor and two at ground floor. Doorway now in modern porch. Interior: Sealed inglenook hearth of clunch. This bay was originally open to the roof. The floor was inserted in the C17-C18. The joists are laid on edge and are of lighter scantling than those in the bay to the west. Original closed partition wall between the two original bays of the house. This is carried up through the first floor and to the ridge. The west gable end wall has, at ground floor, an original six-light window with hollow and roll moulded mullions. At first floor, jowled heads to the posts and cranked bracing.. At ground floor in the front wall of the original wall there is a fragment of wall painting, now concealed.
R.C.H.M.: Record Card
Listing NGR: TL3662650431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52328
- 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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