The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331799
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331799
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, 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 COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brinkley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62879 54727
Details
TL 65 SW BRINKLEY HIGH STREET (South Side)
9/36 The Cottage 7.4.82
II
House with late mediaeval open hall, C16 inserted stack and two storey parlour extension to south-west. North-east bay, possibly original service bay, rebuilt in late C17 or early C18. Local red brick gable stacks late C17 or early C18, internal stack also partly rebuilt in similar red brick. Timber frame plastered; half hipped slate roof. One storey and attic. Two gabled dormer windows. Two garden casement windows and one four-light casement window. Six-flush-panelled and glazed door. Interior. Timber frame of mediaeval hall remains in three walls with almost complete smoke-blackened collar rafter roof. Wall frames and floor frame of C16 addition exposed; wide cross- passage behind inserted stack. Floors to hall and service rooms possibly late C17 or C18 insertions. The house was formerly on the green before the enclosure. RCHM (Cambs. notes), 1952. L. & R.M. Taylor, Brinkley Recollections.
Listing NGR: TL6287954727
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49098
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, L, Taylor, R M, Brinkley Recollections, (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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