Box Cottage
BOX COTTAGE, 43, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330481
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Box Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOX COTTAGE, 43, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330481
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Box Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOX COTTAGE, 43, 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:
- BOX COTTAGE, 43, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alconbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18782 75653
Details
TL 17 NE ALCONBURY HIGH STREET (North-East Side)
4/20 No. 43 - (Box Cottage)
II -
Farmhouse, early to mid C17. Two unit plan with lobby entry. Rear wing or outshut recently demolished. Substantial timber frame of five bays, plastered, with plastered brick at ground floor to south-west and south-east walls. Modern plain tile roof. Rebuilt ridge stack. South east elevation, two storeys. Five casement windows of various sizes and modern gabled, closed porch to north-east. Interior has two inglenook hearths and exposed floor and wall frames. RCHM (Hunts) mon. (19) , p10.
Listing NGR: TL1883575624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 10
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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