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Wildfowl Cottage

Wildfowl Cottage, Baits Bite Lock, CB24 6AG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390672
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-2004
List Entry Name:: Wildfowl Cottage
Statutory Address:: Wildfowl Cottage, Baits Bite Lock, CB24 6AG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390672
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-2004
List Entry Name:: Wildfowl Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Wildfowl Cottage, Baits Bite Lock, CB24 6AG

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: Wildfowl Cottage, Baits Bite Lock, CB24 6AG

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Fen Ditton
National Grid Reference:: TL4861362002

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 September 2022 to amend the name and address, update and reformat the text to current standards

219/0/10021

FEN DITTON BAITS BITE LOCK Wildfowl Cottage

(Formerly listed as BATES BITE LOCK Wildfowl Cottage)

30-MAR-04

II

House. Probably late C17 with early C19 addition and some later alterations. Whitewashed brick and timber-frame with old plain-tile roof of two colours in wide bands. Large stack on rear slope to right. Stack on front slope to left and further tall stack on single-storey addition. Probably three-unit lobby-entry plan originally with single-storey service addition to west. Main range is of two storeys. Four-window range at first floor of three two-light casements and a single-light casement, the former horizontal sliding sashes. To ground floor the entrance is in a flat-roofed porch with casements to either side. Two-light C20 window on left end, small window above. There is a small-paned window in the addition to right which has a horizontal sliding sash on the end wall with a two-light casemnet above. Rear has further casements including a horizontal sliding sash to left.

INTERIOR. Bridging beams, some boxed, are visible. The large main stack has back-to back open fireplaces, one visible. A reception room has a full-height fitted corner cupboard whilst the western service addition retains a range, copper and bread oven.

HISTORY. In the C18 the house appears to have been part of the lands owned by the Wollard famiy including nearby Biggin Abbey (q.v.), and was perhaps always associated with river traffic. In the C19 and early C20 it was a public house known as the Pike and Eel, no doubt serving barge traffic as it stands very close to Bates Bite Lock.

This house retains much from the C17, C18 and C19 including interior fittings and service features, as well as the unusual surviving windows and the massive stack.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 491144
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.