POUND COTTAGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1309693
Date first listed: 18-Oct-1985
Statutory Address: POUND COTTAGE, 61, HIGH STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: POUND COTTAGE, 61, 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: Foxton
National Grid Reference: TL 41204 48404
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TL 4148 FOXTON HIGH STREET
(North west side)
19/65 No. 61(Pound Cottage)
GV II
Cottage. 1581 by William Brestbone, extended by one bay to the west slightly
later. Timber frame, plaster rendered and long straw thatched with single
flue red brick ridye stack. Original two bay plan with narrower bay for the
chimney, extended by one bay to the west. One storey and attic. One
dormer. Three windows, all mid late C.20. Inside: Hall originally open to
the roof with floor inserted C17. Joists laid on edge. There is an original
closed truss in each side of the chimney bay. The chimney is of red brick.
The present doorway is slightly to the east of the original entry. The
framing of the doorway including the lintel is visible opposite the stack.
There is a closed truss between the hall and bay to the east. This is
carried up into the roof space. The framing is uniform, with downward
bracing and posts with jowled heads. The floor frame in the bay at the east
end has joists, laid flat and unmoulded and carried on a chamfered clamp
similar to No. 5 High Street, Foxton (q.v). The main beam has ogee stop
chamfers. The bay the west was open to the roof. Similar framing and
bracing.
Rowland Parker: The Common Stream
R.C.H.M.: Record Card (1950)
Listing NGR: TL4120448404
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 52114
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parker, R, The Common Stream
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing