Dobbins Cottage
DOBBINS COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267501
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Dobbins Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DOBBINS COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267501
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dobbins Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOBBINS COTTAGE, MAIN 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:
- DOBBINS COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Weston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10111 77535
Details
TL 17 NW OLD WESTON MAIN STREET (South East side)
7/79 Dobbins Cottage 28.1.58 formerly listed as Town Farm
II
House formerly a farmhouse. Early C17, possibly incorporating the timber-frame of an earlier building. Timber-framed and plastered with stone and brick plinth painted and plastered. Plain tiled roofs. Large central red brick ridge stack with sawtooth brick and moulded brick cornice, side stack to right hand with similar details both with rebuilt shafts, side stack to left hand rebuilt with tall C19 brick shaft. Two storeys half H-plan with double hall forming main range with service cross wing to left hand and parlour cross wing to right hand formerly with rear staircase. Main lobby entrance with glazed four-panelled door; three ground floor and four first floor nine-paned hung sash windows with side lights and one ground floor casement window. Interior: Exposed timber-frame with wind braces to closed truss possibly indicating an earlier frame, and some reused timbers. Stop chamfered ceiling beams and floor joists of light scantling. Ogee-moulded door frame and ovolo-mullioned two-light window sealed above entrance. Coved plastered ceilings. Chimneys altered, one large open hearth with plain brick jambs partly rebuilt after a fire. Original roof. The house was formerly known as Town Farmhouse.
RCHM: Huntingdonshire p290
Listing NGR: TL1011177535
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54798
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 290
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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