46, High Street
46, High Street, Stretham, Ely, CB6 3LD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178613
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 46, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 46, High Street, Stretham, Ely, CB6 3LD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178613
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 46, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 46, High Street, Stretham, Ely, CB6 3LD
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:
- 46, High Street, Stretham, Ely, CB6 3LD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stretham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5116274489
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 November 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards.
TL 5174
24/22
STRETHAM
HIGH STREET (west side)
No. 46
(Formerly listed as No. 38 (White Lion Cottage))
GV
II
House, formerly White Lion PH. Circa 1600, renovated late C20. Timber-framed, plaster rendered on plinth with plain tiled roof, hipped at the south end. Original ridge stack of clunch rubble with local brick to upper courses. Single range plan of three bays including the narrower entry and chimney bay. Two storeys and attic. Three first floor modern wood casements and similar ground floor windows on either side of lobby entry doorway. In the rear wall at first floor an original three-light diamond mullion casement.
Interior: plan of two rooms on either side of the chimney bay. Back to back inglenook hearths. Substantial scantling to wall and ceiling frames. Stop chamfered main beams transversal to the range and carried on prick posts which are continuous from sole plate to wall plate and form an intermediate truss without tiebeams. The prick posts in the room at the south end, possibly originally a parlour, have more elaborate moulding. Flight of brick steps to first floor on north side of stack. Arch braced tiebeams, and main posts with long jowled heads. Clasped side purlin roof with paired wind bracing. The ceiling frame with its transversal main beams carried on moulded brick posts, arch braced tiebeams and long jowled post heads are similar to those of the Mansion House, Covenay (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TL5116274489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49497
- 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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