The Gables

THE GABLES, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380140
Date first listed:
29-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
The Gables
Statutory Address:
THE GABLES, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380140
Date first listed:
29-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
The Gables
Statutory Address 1:
THE GABLES, HIGH STREET

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE GABLES, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Spaldwick
National Grid Reference:
TL 12956 72755

Details

SPALDWICK

49/0/10002 HIGH STREET
29-FEB-00 The Gables

GV II

House. Late C17/ early C18 with C19 additions and alterations. Whitewashed timber-frame and brick with plain-tile roof and brick left ridge stack. 3-unit lobby-entry plan, with extensions to left and rear. 2 storeys. 4-window range at first floor of 2-storey canted bay either side a square projection with 2/2 sash to front and narrow single-lights to side. To far right a further 2/2 sash. Panelled door and overlight in the square projection with similar side lights. On left end a lean-to extension with C18 2-panel door and HL hinges. 10/10 sash to right. To its left and to rear of the main range a 2-storey extension with horizontal sliding sash over a C20 window. End stack and single-storey partly outbuilding extension beyond. To rear of main range a 2-storey early C19 2-storey extension with 2/2 sashes over 2-light casements and a French window. Slate roof to this part.
INTERIOR. Tall-panel framing visible in the right-hand unit. Remodelled open fireplace, perhaps originally for copper. In the left unit an open fireplace with bressumer, partly infilled. 4-panel and plank doors. Clasped purlin roof with various renewals and framed partitions in roof area.
The Gables forms part of a significant group of listed buildings in High Street.


Listing NGR: TL1295672755

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
479636
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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