Thorns Gate Cottage
THORNS GATE COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, HAMERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330485
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Thorns Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THORNS GATE COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, HAMERTON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00554/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330485
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Thorns Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNS GATE COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, HAMERTON 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:
- THORNS GATE COTTAGE, 1 AND 3, HAMERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alconbury Weston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 17566 77066
Details
TL 17 NE ALCONBURY WESTON HAMERTON ROAD (West Side)
Nos 1 and 3 4/40 (Thorns Gate Cottage) (Formerly listed as 21. 7.51 Thorns Gate)
GV II
Timber framed and plastered farmhouse of hall and crosswing plan with main range extended to form hay barn with weather boarded gable to west. Cross-passage to east of hall and flanking crosswing with south-facing jetty and large soft-red brick side stack with baking oven. Ridge stack to main range, and reduced end stack to crosswing. Roofs of plain tiles, hipped to west, and north of crosswing. Windows, three at first floor and at ground floor include four three-light casements with rectangular quarries in iron frames. Boarded door. Interior has two inglenook hearths and chamfered ceiling beams. RCHM (Hunts) p12.
Listing NGR: TL1756677066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54514
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 12
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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