Butchers Cottage

18, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1310080
Date first listed:
31-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Butchers Cottage
Statutory Address:
18, WEST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1310080
Date first listed:
31-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Butchers Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
18, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 2:
BUTCHERS COTTAGE, 14 AND 16, WEST STREET

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
18, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:
BUTCHERS COTTAGE, 14 AND 16, WEST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Comberton
National Grid Reference:
TL 38001 56213

Details

TL 3856 COMBERTON WEST STREET (North Side)

9/56 Nos. 14 and 16 (Butchers Cottage), No. 18

GV II

Cottage, subdivided C19, and now two dwellings. C17 origin. Timber-framed, rendered with large, steeply pitched slate roof and two internal C19 grey brick ridge stacks. Gable end to road. One storey and two attics. End to road has two windows to each storey including two horizontal sliding sashes, C19, and another in the attic storey. Side elevation has two tiers of dormers with horizontal sliding sashes. One to upper attic and two to lower. Two doorways, one to No. 16 now blocked. Adjoining is an early C19 shop addition. Probably framed or clay bat, roughcast rendered and slate. Single storey. Doorway and window. Inside: Original plan of three bays. Framing in No. 16 now exposed. Framing of late C17 or early C18 with straight wall bracing. Through-purlin roof and small C19 hearth.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(24)

Listing NGR: TL3800156213

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
51674
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

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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