Mill House

MILL HOUSE, 8, FOWLMERE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165758
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Mill House
Statutory Address:
MILL HOUSE, 8, FOWLMERE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165758
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Mill House
Statutory Address 1:
MILL HOUSE, 8, FOWLMERE ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL HOUSE, 8, FOWLMERE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Shepreth
National Grid Reference:
TL 39380 47929

Details

SHEPRETH FOWLMERE ROAD TL 3947 (South east side) 21/313 No. 8 (Mill House) GV II

Formerly the mill house. C17, C19. Two bays on the south side remain from the C17 mill house. Timber framed, plaster rendered and tiled. Two storeys. C19 casements and boarded doors. Early in the C19 the part to the east was built. Originally the pantry and stable. Claybat and long straw thatch roof, hipped to east end. One storey and loft. South wall repaired in brick. In mid C19, the house at the west end was built. Also of clay bat, rendered with gault brick front wall and hipped, slate roof, with stack in rear wall. Two storeys. Range of three recessed casements at first floor. Stuccoed doorcase surround with plain entablature and cornice. Inside: in the east wall of the timber framed part one post of an earlier remains. It has a thickened head at approximately present ground floor ceiling height and two vacant mortices. There is a similar post in the opposing wall. It has been suggested that these are a pair of cruck blades. (V.C.H.). The roof over the C19 clay bat pantry and stable has timber of light scantling. There are C19 details to the house part, including the staircase.

V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. 5 R.C.H.M.: Record Card

Listing NGR: TL3938047929

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
52365
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973)

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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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