Black Horse Cottage
BLACK HORSE COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331970
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Black Horse Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK HORSE COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04683/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331970
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Black Horse Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK HORSE COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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:
- BLACK HORSE COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elm
- National Grid Reference:
- TF4692906800
Details
TF 40 NE
11/8
1.5.75
ELM
MAIN ROAD
Black Horse Cottage
(formerly listed as Black Horse Public House)
II
House dated 1663 and inscribed R.S.M. on stone panel to gable end of porch. Red
brick, English bond with steeply pitched roof of C19 pantiles. Original end stack to
north and later end stack to south. Two storeys, framed by rusticated pilasters also
of red brick and with a moulded brick band to upper edge of thickened ground floor
wall. Original rusticated surrounds, eliptical arches and raised key blocks to two
later three-light casements. Two similar casements and surrounds at ground floor.
Original two storey gabled porch at the north end opposite the stack. Eliptical
window, now blocked, with similar rusticated surround above a pedimented doorway with
similar keyblock and surround.
Pevsner (Buildings of England), p335.
Listing NGR: TF4692906800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 335
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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