The Thatch
THE THATCH, DOCK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331290
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatch
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCH, DOCK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331290
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatch
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCH, DOCK LANE
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 THATCH, DOCK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horningsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49277 62764
Details
TL 4862-4962 HORNINGSEA DOCK LANE (North Side)
17/63 The Thatch 11.12.81 (formerly listed as No 3 The Thatch)
GV II
Cottage, possible early C16. Timber framed and plastered with local brick walls and large stack to east. Pantiled roof to lean to. Reed thatch. One storey and attic; original two unit plan with open hall, possibly extended to east. One dormer casement window, two fixed light ground floor windows and boarded door. Interior. Exposed timber frame with clunch internal partition, original floor to room to west with joists laid flat; C19 floor inserted in hall. Large inglenook hearth late C16 or early C17. R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 70, mon. 6.
Listing NGR: TL4927762764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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