6, LITTLE LANE
6, LITTLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318012
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 6, LITTLE LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 6, LITTLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318012
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 6, LITTLE LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, LITTLE LANE
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:
- 6, LITTLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38274 44616
Details
MELBOURN LITTLE LANE TL 3844 (South west side) 24/187 No. 6 II
Cottage. Mid-late C.17. Timber-framed, plaster rendered and long straw thatch roof, half-hipped. Original red brick ridge stack with upper courses rebuilt in grey brick. Three bay and lobby entry plan, extended by small kitchen wing, lateC20. One storey and attic. Three square headed late C20 dormers with three light casements of same period. Three windows at ground floor, one to the original parlour has the site for the diamond mullions and the pegs for the sill, now lowered. Doorway opposite the stack. Inside: Red brick inglenook hearth. The timber are well carpentered, of uniform scantling and tend to be heavier than those found in the late C18 or early C19 cottages in the village. The framing is somewhat similar to that of the Pink Geranium. Restaurant,Station Road (q.v.). The cottage retains the original newel staircase off the centre room and a doorway through the framed partition wall from the centre room or hall to the parlour. The end bay to the right hand was originally open to the roof and was probably used for storage. The joists in the centre room have a cyma stop to the main beam and a single run-out stop at the other end. Clasped side purlin roof. In 1842 the cottage was owned by John Hitch and occupied by William Long.
Tithe Map: (C.R.O)
Listing NGR: TL3827444616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52238
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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