Hope Cottages
1-5, MAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309603
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, MAY STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309603
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, MAY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- HOPE COTTAGES, 2-8, HALL LANE
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:
- 1-5, MAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- HOPE COTTAGES, 2-8, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great and Little Chishill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 42250 38805
Details
TL 4238 GT & LT CHISHILL HALL LANE (South side) 24/19 Hope Cottages Nos 2-8 7.7.76 (even) and Nos 1-5 (odd) May Street (formerly listed as Hope Cottages) GV II Nine cottages forming a planned unit of two ranges linked by cottage No.1 segmental in plan to the corner with glazed panel above door inscribed "Hope Cottages Erected 1843". Timber-framed and plastered or with roughcast renders. Hipped slated roof, five rectangular planned off the ridge stacks. Two storeys, two unit plans with two heated rooms and rear staircase to first floor. Boarded entrance doors with exception of Nos. 3 and 5 with C20 replacements; small bracketed hoods above. Ten ground floor and ten first floor casement windows. The cottages with woodsheds and privies enclose a communal courtyard, the plot to the east was originally divided into nine strips or allotments separated by narrow baulks. They were restored in 1979. RCHM Report 1956
Listing NGR: TL4225038805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52848
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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