Bowyers Cottage
74, COMMERCIAL END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223541
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Bowyers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 74, COMMERCIAL END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223541
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Bowyers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 74, COMMERCIAL END
- Statutory Address 2:
- BOWYERS COTTAGE, COMMERCIAL END
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:
- 74, COMMERCIAL END
- Statutory Address:
- BOWYERS COTTAGE, COMMERCIAL END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swaffham Bulbeck
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55722 63196
Details
TL 55 63 SWAFFHAM BULBECK COMMERCIAL END (East side) 14/10010 No 74 and Bowyers Cottage
GV II
2 cottages, formerly 3. Early C19, perhaps with earlier core (dated 1730). Probably for Thomas Bowyer, d.1824. Rendered timber-frame and pantile roof with brick ridge stack. Probably single-unit with pantry plan originally. Single-storey and attic; 7-window range in all of single- and 2-light light windows some with horizontal sliding sashes. 4 horizontal sliding sash dormers above. Interiors not inspected. This little altered row of cottages is probably among those built (or remodelled in this case) by Thomas Bowyer for his workforce. He was an important local merchant operating trading activities on the Swaffham Lode from a nearby wharf. (RCHM (North East Cambs.); p.111; Mon.47)
Listing NGR: TL5572263196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419304
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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