The Merchants House
THE MERCHANTS HOUSE, 13, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331131
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Merchants House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MERCHANTS HOUSE, 13, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331131
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Merchants House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MERCHANTS HOUSE, 13, 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:
- THE MERCHANTS HOUSE, 13, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55911 46654
Details
TL 5446 LINTOL HIGH STREET (North-West Side)
15/118 No 13 (The 16.5.82 Merchants House)
GV II
House. Late C16 with early C19 alterations. Painted brick front elevations; plain tiled roof with red brick stack shared with No 15 to right hand. Two storeys with attic, original lobby entry plan before subdivision in c1840. Central C20 glazed door flanked by two flush framed twenty-paned hung sash windows in flat arches. Three smaller, similar first floor windows. Two gabled dormer windows with C20 casements. Plastered plinth. Interior: exposed floor frame, original hearth with lamp niches, one of clunch with mollet of De Veres (qv No 109 Gt Abington).
Possibly reused piscina, bearing device of Earls of Oxford and various pieces of a statue of a female religious figure, found in internal walls during renovations of 1976.
Scarfe, N Cambridgeshire 1983 Paris and Millicent Maps 1600. Pembroke College Stevens, R L (unpublished records) 1983
Listing NGR: TL5591146654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51932
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scarfe, N, Cambridgeshire, (1983)
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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