Three Horseshoes Cottage

THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330498
Date first listed:
03-Dec-1981
List Entry Name:
Three Horseshoes Cottage
Statutory Address:
THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330498
Date first listed:
03-Dec-1981
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Three Horseshoes Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Location

Statutory Address:
THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Upwood and the Raveleys
National Grid Reference:
TL 25253 81295

Details

TL 2581 UPWOOD AND THE RAVELEYS GREAT RAVELEY
(South West Side)
14/75 Three Horseshoes
Cottage (formerly
3.12.81 listed as Three Horseshoes Inn)

II

Cottage, formerly Public House. Late C17 and C19. Timber-frame, cased in C19 brick and painted. Reed thatched and hipped roof with original red brick
ridge stack of two linked diagonally set shafts on a rectangular base. C19 gault brick stack added at the same time as the bay to the south-east end. Original three bay plan possibly of lobby entry type, but altered following later additions. One bay added to south-east end, a tap-room, on the front and kitchen wing at the rear. One storey and attic. On the front a dormer with a small pane horizontal sliding sash. Three ground floor windows, the openings are C19 as are two small pane horizontal sliding sashes in segmented arches. Two doorways in segmental arches. C19 brick extension in the front for a tap-room. Gabled, thatched roof. Rear kitchen wing also brick, C19. Pantiled and slate roof. Two storeys. Interior: Some exposed timber-framing in two wall trusses showing jowled post heads and side purlin roof. Wattle and daub infill. Inglenook hearth with inserted bread oven and abutting smaller hearth possibly for a former parlour.
IR.C.H.M. Hunts., mon (3)
V.C.H. Hunts., Vol. III


Listing NGR: TL2525381295

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Legacy System number:
54701
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926)
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936)

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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