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Latitude: 52.1155 / 52°6'55"N
Longitude: 0.236 / 0°14'9"E
OS Eastings: 553197
OS Northings: 248706
OS Grid: TL531487
Mapcode National: GBR M9Y.6J5
Mapcode Global: VHHKR.13L3
Plus Code: 9F42468P+59
Entry Name: Gildencroft
Listing Date: 30 September 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1127719
English Heritage Legacy ID: 51857
ID on this website: 101127719
Location: Little Abington, South Cambridgeshire, CB21
County: Cambridgeshire
District: South Cambridgeshire
Civil Parish: Great Abington
Built-Up Area: Great Abington
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Great and Little Abington
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Building Thatched cottage
TL 5348
11/15
GREAT ABINGTON
HIGH STREET
(North-West Side)
No. 82 (Gildencroft)
GV
II*
Cottage. C15 with mid C16 and C17 alterations. Timber-framed and
plastered. Half hipped thatched roof. One storey and attic, three unit plan
with original floored ends. Boarded door to left hand, five ground floor
windows of various sizes with glazing bars. Large three-light ejjebrow dormer
window. Ridge stack to left of centre with upper courses of gault brick, end
stack to right hand. Interior: substantial timber-frame complete with wide
braces trenched over the studs and nailed, and interrupted tie beam to north
gable. Posts of display truss of open hall masked by plaster, tie beam and
braces removed for inserted C16 floor with roll-moulded axial beam and
joists. Square sectioned joists axially laid to north-east and iaouth-west
rooms. Large inglenook hearth with shaped head to niche, and baking oven
complete, possibly mid C17. Collar rafter roof with smoke blackened timbers
over the original hall. The cottage is sited at the junction of the former
road to Bourn Bridge from Linton marked by a stone cross noted in the C19.
Map. Gt. Abington 1687, C.R.O.
Listing NGR: TL5319748706
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