279, HIGH STREET
279, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331346
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 279, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 279, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331346
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 279, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 279, 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:
- 279, 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:
- Cottenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45111 67438
Details
TL 4567 COTTENHAM HIGH STREET (South East Side)
14/26 No. 279
II
House, late C16. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, with later weatherboarding to rear and one gable end wall and gault brick casing to ground floor of crosswing. Steeply pitched roofs now of corrugated iron, originally thatched. Gault brick axial, ridge stack and side stack to crosswing with early C18 brickwork to lower courses, and rebuilt upper courses. Hall and crosswing plan with main doorway to lobby entry to hall range. Two storeys. Two horizontal sliding sashes to first floor and two hung sashes on either side of doorway. Some of the framing is exposed and painted white. The crosswing is also two storeys, originally jettied at first floor, now underbuilt. One horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars. Interior: The crosswing is in three bays and has arch bracing to the tie beams. One upper room remains open to the roof and was used as a cheese room. The framing is of substantial scantling, close set. The centre room of the hall range has moulded main beam with leaf stops to the chamfer. Similar moulding to the middle rail above the hearth.
Listing NGR: TL4511167438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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