Michael House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1981. Cottage.

Michael House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1981
Type
Cottage
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 4048 FOXTON HIGH STREET (North west side) 18/61 No. 29 11.12.81 (Michaelhouse) GV II

Pair of cottages, now one dwelling. c.1575 in origin but remodelled and rebuilt in early C18, for Trinity College. Timber framed,,plaster rendered and long stray thatch. Original axial ridge stack of two flues with a third flue added. Single range and two bay plan with end to road. One storey and attic. One horizontal sliding sash to gable end, and two to front wall. One doorway to cottage near the road, the other doorway has been blocked and part glazed. Thatched and timber framed outshut at the rear. Inside: Abutting inglenook hearths of red and gault brick and a small later fireplace to chamber in the attic. Framing of slender scantling and without the bracing found in the late C16 buildings in the village. (e.g. nos. 5, 61 and 75 High Street).

R.C.H.M.: Record Card (1950) Rowland Parker: The Common Stream

Listing NGR: TL4094248219

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