The Chestnuts
THE CHESTNUTS, 2, THRAPSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290088
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 2, THRAPSTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290088
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 2, THRAPSTON ROAD
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:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 2, THRAPSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimbolton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 09882 67902
Details
KIMBOLTON THRAPSTON ROAD TL 095675 SOUTH SIDE) 6/69 NO. 2 24.10.51 (THE CHESTNUTS) II GV C16 cottage of three unit plan with firebay. C17 wing to north east. Cottage timber-framed and plaster rendered. Steeply pitched, plain tiled roof with end stack and rebuilt ridge stack. One storey and attics. South west elevation has two gabled dormers with horizontal sliding sashes. Three casements with glazing bars and modern gabled brick porch. C17 wing timber framed, rendered, partly rebuilt in brick in C18. Plain tiled, hipped roof. Two storeys. Entry in north east angle. Later brick porch. Headstone forming doorstep to threshold. Segmental headed arches to four hung sashes in gable end. Interior. Cottage originally open to roof with framed chimney stack and large inglenook. Late C16 or early C17 stack inserted into firebay. Lower courses of rubblestone, upper of red brick. C18 moulded mantel shelf to fireplace in hall. Chamfered main beams. C19 open string staircase with square section balusters. RCHM (Hunts) p173, item(7).
Listing NGR: TL0988267902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 173
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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