Lower Gatley End Farmhouse
LOWER GATLEY END FARMHOUSE, ROYSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317861
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Gatley End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER GATLEY END FARMHOUSE, ROYSTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317861
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Gatley End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER GATLEY END FARMHOUSE, ROYSTON ROAD
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:
- LOWER GATLEY END FARMHOUSE, ROYSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Morden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29487 41682
Details
TL 24 SE STEEPLE MORDEN ROYSTON ROAD (East Side)
4/229 Lower Gatley End Farmhouse (Rook Grove Farmhouse) II
House, formerly a farmhouse. Late C14 with late C16, late C17 or C18, and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed, plastered and clap boarded; some C16 or earlier brick nogging. Steeply pitched plain tiled roofs hipped to right hand return. Two gault brick end stacks and ridge stack. Two storeys. Originai building possibly of three unit plan with central open hall; late C16 parlour wing to south-east and late C17 or early C18 addition in angle. West elevation: Two ground floor and three first floor C20 casement windows, C20 glazed lean-to porch and glazed door. Interior: Surviving C14 structure exposed with vacant mortices to posts and internal partitions, wall plates with splayed undersquinted butted scarf joints and evidence of a diamond mullioned first floor window with shutter groove in north bays centre-tenoned floor joists with later crude chamfers possibly resited in south bay. Roll-moulded beams and joists to south-east room and exposed timber-frame at first floor. Late C17 inserted floor across original hall and bay to north. Three hearths, altered or sealed. C17 and C18 doors one with cocks head hinges. Roof not seen.
Hewitt, C. English Historic Carpentry
Listing NGR: TL2948741682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52637
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hewett, C A, The Development of Carpentry 1200-1700 An Essex Study, (1969)
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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