Mabbutts
MABBUTTS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309917
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Mabbutts
- Statutory Address:
- MABBUTTS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309917
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mabbutts
- Statutory Address 1:
- MABBUTTS, 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:
- MABBUTTS, 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:
- Hildersham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54537 48620
Details
TL 5448 HILDERSHAM HIGH STREET (North West Side)
12/64 Mabbutts (formerly listed 22.11.67 as Withleigh)
GV II*
House, formerly a farmhouse. Mid C16 with late C17 addition and alterations. Timber-framed and partly plastered with hipped thatched roof; tall red brick rectangular planned ridge stack; red pantiled rear wing with end stack. Two storeys, three unit plan with cross passage behind the stack, continuous jetty to main elevation of four bays including a chimney bay. (qv The Bell, Linton). Main elevation: close-studded timber-frame with original window sills to first floor windows in situ including small closet window, (windows to right hand later insertions), exposed jetty joists with plain curved brackets marking each bay. C19 four-flush-panelled door, and three ground floor and three first floor horizontal sliding sashes. Interior: Ground floor plan intact except for removal of wall to service room and blocked rear door with four-centred arched head, first floor rooms with later inserted partitions have a C16 boarded door with patterned iron strap hinges, and a late C17 bolection-moulded door. Roll-moulded joists and cross beams. Main hearth with reddened bricks (part of an original decorative scheme), with deeply moulded re-used C15 mantel beam. Shutter groove and rebates for shutters indicate former window positions. Room to left hand plastered with late C17 cornice. Bake house and brewhouse with C20 alterations retain original hearth and baking oven. Patterned plastered panels in cross-passage.
RCHM Report 1951 VCH VI p 60
Listing NGR: TL5453748620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51877
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 60
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
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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