53, 55, HIGH STREET
53, 55, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331189
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 53, 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, 55, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331189
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 53, 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, 55, 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:
- 53, 55, 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:
- Melbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38307 44795
Details
MELBOURN HIGH STREET TL 3844 (South east side) 24/172 Nos. 53, 55 GV II
House, formerly The Anchor public house. C16. Timber framed roughcast rendered and tiled roof with later end stacks. Wing at rear now forms an L plan. Two storeys. Three late C20 windows at first floor and two on either side of doorway. Inside: the front range retains joists of heavy scantling. In c.1840 it was owned by Thomas Dickason Titchmarsh and occupied by Mynott Titchmarsh, farmer. It became the Anchor P.H. in 1840's when Mynott Titchmarsh moved to a farmstead in fields after enclosure.
Dr. D. Mills: Technique of house repopulation: experience from a Cambs. Village, 1841 (Local Historian: Vol. 13 No. 2 May '78). R.C.H.M.: Record Card (1949)
Listing NGR: TL3830744795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52223
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Local Historian in Local Historian, Vol. 13, (1978)
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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