Description

GAMLINGAY MILL STREET
TL 25SW (East side)

3/81
Nos 53 and 55

GV II

Terrace of two cottages. 1721 (dated brick panel to front wall). Local red
brick, Flemish bond on high plinth, part rendered and sandstone rubble
footings. The south end wall is now roughcast rendered. Tiled roof and
shared axial ridge stack. Plain eaves cornice of three courses. One storey
and attic. Four gable dormers. Four hung sashes in slightly enlarged
openings. Each cottage has a flight of four repaired steps up to front door.
The panel is moulded brick with the initials MB and date 1727. Associated
with a charity originating in the will of Thomas Handley, proved 1740, for the
benefit of the minister of the Baptist Chapel (qv). The initials MWNB may
possibly refer to members of the Bass family who are recorded as being in
Gamlingay in C16. By C18 this property was in the ownership of the Huckle
family.

RCHM: West Cambs mon (35)
VCH: Cambs vol V p85
Pevsner: Buildings of England p391
C Brown: Mss Notes (1985)

Listing NGR: TL2376951939

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457334

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2