Ivy Cottage
IVY COTTAGE, 16, WHITTLESFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165003
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- IVY COTTAGE, 16, WHITTLESFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165003
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVY COTTAGE, 16, WHITTLESFORD 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:
- IVY COTTAGE, 16, WHITTLESFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Shelford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45436 51518
Details
TL 4551 LITTLE SHELFORD WHITTLESFORD ROAD (South West Side)
19/171 No.16 (Ivy Cottage)
II
Cottage, early C18 enlarged in early and late C19. Timber framed brick and clunch, rendered with steeply pitched pantiled and plain tiled roofs. Early C18 ridge stack to cottage. Cottage of three bay, lobby entry plan with lean-to at rear. One storey and attics. One C19 gable dormer and two horizontal sliding sashes with small panes and a hung sash of twelve panes on either side of doorway in early C19 gabled porch with pointed lights to side walls. The garden wing is early C19, incorporating the gable end of the cottage. Clunch, rendered with a mansard roof, plain tiled. Two storeys. Central doorway flanked on left hand by a two storey bow window with a tripartite hung sash to each storey. A similar window on right hand to attic storey of gable end of cottage and a bow window at ground floor also with a tripartite hung sash. Inside the centre room of the cottage retains its original staircase and another room has early C19 details including slender fluted engaged columns and a panelled dado. The cottage is associated with the Wale and Altham family who have retained ownership since 1701.
Listing NGR: TL4543651518
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51575
- 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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