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Lower Gatley End Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0584 / 52°3'30"N

Longitude: -0.1127 / 0°6'45"W

OS Eastings: 529487

OS Northings: 241682

OS Grid: TL294416

Mapcode National: GBR K7D.VQQ

Mapcode Global: VHGN9.0J8D

Plus Code: 9C4X3V5P+9W

Entry Name: Lower Gatley End Farmhouse

Listing Date: 4 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1317861

English Heritage Legacy ID: 52637

ID on this website: 101317861

Location: Morden Green, South Cambridgeshire, SG8

County: Cambridgeshire

District: South Cambridgeshire

Civil Parish: Steeple Morden

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Steeple Morden St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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Description


TL 24 SE STEEPLE MORDEN ROYSTON ROAD
(East Side)

4/229 Lower Gatley End
Farmhouse (Rook Grove
Farmhouse)
II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Late C14 with late C16, late C17 or C18, and C19
alterations and additions. Timber-framed, plastered and clap boarded; some
C16 or earlier brick nogging. Steeply pitched plain tiled roofs hipped to
right hand return. Two gault brick end stacks and ridge stack. Two storeys.
Originai building possibly of three unit plan with central open hall; late
C16 parlour wing to south-east and late C17 or early C18 addition in angle.
West elevation: Two ground floor and three first floor C20 casement windows,
C20 glazed lean-to porch and glazed door. Interior: Surviving C14 structure
exposed with vacant mortices to posts and internal partitions, wall plates
with splayed undersquinted butted scarf joints and evidence of a diamond
mullioned first floor window with shutter groove in north bays centre-tenoned
floor joists with later crude chamfers possibly resited in south bay.
Roll-moulded beams and joists to south-east room and exposed timber-frame at
first floor. Late C17 inserted floor across original hall and bay to north.
Three hearths, altered or sealed. C17 and C18 doors one with cocks head
hinges. Roof not seen.

Hewitt, C. English Historic Carpentry


Listing NGR: TL2948741682

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