Goward's Farmhouse
GOWARD'S FARMHOUSE, 28, MIDDLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165617
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Goward's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GOWARD'S FARMHOUSE, 28, MIDDLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165617
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Goward's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOWARD'S FARMHOUSE, 28, MIDDLE 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:
- GOWARD'S FARMHOUSE, 28, MIDDLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thriplow and Heathfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 43900 46296
Details
TL 4246 THRIPLOW MIDDLE STREET (West Side) 13/313 No. 28 (Goward's Farmhouse) 22.11.67 GV II Farmhouse, now a house. Late C15 with late C16 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered. Plain tiled roof. Late C17 ridge stack to right of centre with sawtooth tile and moulded brick cornice. Tarred brick plinth. Two storeys with attics. Three unit plan with original open hall and chambered end rooms. North elevation: C19 six-panelled door in lobby entry position with moulded wooden architrave and flat canopy on shaped brackets. Three ground floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows rebated for shutters, three similar first floor windows. Interior: Fireplace to west room, late C16 with leaf-stops to mantel beam and leaf-stop to replacement floor beams. Sealed late C16 ovolo mullioned window in hall with inserted floor and large fireplace with chamfered mantel beam. The exposed C15 frame shows some burnt marks. The roof appears to have been reconstructed as a side purlin wind- braced roof in the late C16 reusing some C15 material. First floor fireplace in room to west of brick with four-centred arch, cornice of bull-nosed bricks and plaster frieze painted with dots and crosses. R.C.H.M. Report 1950 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.239
Listing NGR: TL4390046296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53132
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 239
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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