Wiles Cottage
WILES COTTAGE, 20, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301879
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wiles Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WILES COTTAGE, 20, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301879
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wiles Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILES COTTAGE, 20, HIGH 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:
- WILES COTTAGE, 20, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Waterbeach
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4959365709
Details
TL 4865-4965
12/155
WATERBEACH
HIGH STREET
(East Side)
No. 20 (Wiles Cottage)
GV
II
Cottage. Late C17 and early C19. Local brick and C19 gault
brick, rear wall partly painted. Plain tile roof. One storey
and attic extended one bay to east. Gable to west with tumbled
brick parapet and end stack, C17 ridge stack, C19 gault brick
gable and stack to east. Chequered brick band at attic floor in
gable, painted in main facade and arched over segmental
openings. Four casement dormer windows, half-glazed,
flush-panelled C19 door and boarded door. Two hung sash windows
one to right hand early C19 with thick glazing bars, later C19
bay window to left hand. Stone plaque in gable inscribed 'Wiles
Cottage'. Interior. Large sealed inglenook hearth in central
room. Ovolo-moulded and stop-chamfered cross-beams. The
cottage was formerly the coachman's house to The Rookery.
R.C.H.M. (Cambs notes) 1934
Ravensdale, J. Liable to Floods p. 164 1974
Listing NGR: TL4959365709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50701
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ravensdale, J R, Liable to Flood, (1974), 164
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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