The Old Guild House
THE OLD GUILD HOUSE, 88 AND 90, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309994
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guild House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD GUILD HOUSE, 88 AND 90, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309994
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Guild House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD GUILD HOUSE, 88 AND 90, 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:
- THE OLD GUILD HOUSE, 88 AND 90, 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:
- Great Abington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53167 48680
Details
TL 5248 GREAT ABINGTON HIGH STREET (West Side)
11/16 Nos. 88 and 90 (The Old Guild House)
GV II
Cottage. C15 with C16 and C17 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with two bays to west exposed. Thatched roof. Red brick ridge stack and stack to west gable end. Painted plinth. One storey and attic. C20 boarded door, eight ground floor casement windows of various sizes with glazing bars and three plain tiled gabled dormer windows. Interior: Some timber-frame survives of the original C15 building, rebuilt mid C16 with inserted floors; floor to central room with roll-moulded joists and axial beam. Segmental arched brick fire place mid to late C17. The cottage is sited on the north side of the former road from Linton to Bourn Bridge, a stone cross marked the cross roads in the early C19. Wm Palmer suggests the cottage was once the guildhall.
Map. Gt. Abington 1687, C.R.O. Palmer, W.M. 'The Neighbourhood of Hildersham', 1924
Listing NGR: TL5316748680
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51860
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, W M, The Neighbourhood of Hildersham, (1924)
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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