16 AND 18, MIDDLE STREET
16 AND 18, MIDDLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211197
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, MIDDLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 18, MIDDLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211197
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, MIDDLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 18, 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:
- 16 AND 18, MIDDLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gransden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27059 55780
Details
TL 2656 TL 2755 GREAT GRANSDEN MIDDLE STREET (East Side) 14/61 15/61 Nos. 16 & 18 -
GV II
Farmhouse, late C15 or early C16, now two dwellings. Timber framed and plastered of five bays to main range, with cross-wing to south of two bays possibly jettied with street facade altered in late C19. Plain tile roofs half-hipped to cross-wing. Large ridge stack with three reduced late C16 engaged diagonal brick shafts. C20 side stack to cross-wing. Two storeys. Five first floor and four ground floor windows, casements of various sizes with glazing bars. Wide half-glazed door to No. 18 and bay window and door to No. 16. Original plan of interior altered in C19 when hearth was built into cross-passage of main range and backing the hall hearth, the two service rooms to the north became one, heated room, retaining the original trap door for a stair or ladder. Inglenook hearth to hall has a fine moulded mantel beam; moulded cross-beams to ceiling, with hollow- chamfered and stopped joists. Solid braces with hollow- chamfers at first floor level of chimney truss and evidence of similar, but larger braces to the display truss. Splayed and under-squinted scarf-joint to west wall plate, and series of circular carpenters' assembly marks. Side purlin roof with curved wind braces in each bay. RCHM (Hunts) mon.(37), p122.
Listing NGR: TL2706055782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395739
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 122
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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