HIGHFIELD HOUSE

HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 11, APTHORPE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331035
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1962
List Entry Name:: HIGHFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 11, APTHORPE STREET

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Date:: 1999-09-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331035
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1962
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: HIGHFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 11, APTHORPE STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 11, APTHORPE STREET

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Fulbourn
National Grid Reference:: TL5192156360

Details

TL 5156 10/2 31.8.62

FULBOURN APTHORPE STREET (West Side) No.11 (Highfield House) (formerly listed as Highfield Farmhouse)

II*

House, mid-late C14 with floor inserted and roof raised C16 and enlarged by addition of crosswing to left hand in early C17. Timber framed, plaster rendered with thatched roof of long straw. Ridge stack of mid C17 red brick and having grouped shafts set diagonally. Mid-late C14 open hall and crosswing plan with entry to cross-passage in crosswing. In early C16 floor and stack inserted into low end of open hall, abutting onto the cross-passage in the crosswing. At the same the opposing doorways in the cross-passage were sealed and the doorway placed opposite the stack, converting the house to one of lobby-entry type. Two storeys. All the fenestration is later, some occupying wholly or partially the sites of original windows. Hall has a casement at first floor and early C19 hung sashes at ground floor. The present doorway to the lobby entry has an early C19 panelled door. The right crosswing is jettied and the jetty beam is carried on four, C14, brackets. One C20 window on the site of an original opening at first floor. Another smaller window with modern glazing but an original rectangular mullion still survives in the left hand side wall. C20 window at ground floor. Left hand crosswing, C17, is also jettied and has one window to each floor. Adjoining the house is a kitchen wing, C17-C18, clunch with a tiled roof and end stack. Originally of one storey. Interior: None of the wall framing of the hall is now visible. The chamfered and leaf stopped main beams of the early C16 inserted floor are visible. The lintel over the inglenook has been partly mutilated but retains some of the original double roll moulding. The roof was raised at the same time as the floor and stack were inserted. The original rafters were re-used in the roof. They are well sooted but there is clear evidence of disturbance, and the pegs to the hipped joints of the collars and rafters are quite clean. The late C14 crosswing is in two bays and has always been floored. The original main beam is now supported by an inserted beam. The joists are laid flat and unmoulded. The inserted chimney stack in the hall and to the crosswing abut onto the original screens passage. A substantial part of both the original screen and the cross-passage remain. The opposing doorways now sealed have segmental arched heads. The middle beam of the screen has ogee moulding and forms the lintel to the service doorways which have hollow moulded jambs. These doorways flank the screen proper which has arched bracing with trefoil cusping in the spandrels. The crosswing retains the original crown-post roof with moulded capital and base to the tall, octagonal column with its four-way bracing. This solar has a small hearth inserted in the C16. There is a garde robe addition at the rear of the solar. The C17 crosswing has ovolo moulding to the main beam. It is cellared. The roof is of typical clasped side purlin construction of comparatively light scantling. The kitchen at the rear has a Queen Street roof of two bays. J.M. Fletcher and P.S. Spokes: The Origin and Development of Crown-post roofs R.C.H.M: record card M.E. Wood: The English Medieval House p.143

Listing NGR: TL5192156360

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Legacy System number:: 51407
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fletcher, J M, Spokes, P S, The Origin and Development of Crown Post Roofs
Wood, E , The English Medieval House, (1965), 143

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.