Latitude: 52.2396 / 52°14'22"N
Longitude: 0.2781 / 0°16'41"E
OS Eastings: 555648
OS Northings: 262607
OS Grid: TL556626
Mapcode National: GBR M8F.K48
Mapcode Global: VHHJZ.RYWZ
Plus Code: 9F4267QH+V6
Entry Name: Bolebec Cottage
Listing Date: 15 June 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1127049
English Heritage Legacy ID: 49425
ID on this website: 101127049
Location: Swaffham Bulbeck, East Cambridgeshire, CB25
County: Cambridgeshire
District: East Cambridgeshire
Civil Parish: Swaffham Bulbeck
Built-Up Area: Swaffham Bulbeck
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Swaffham Bulbeck St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Cottage
TL 5562 SWAFFHAM BULBECK HIGH STREET
(East Side)
16/126 No. 33 (Bolebec
Cottage)
GV II
House, dated 1587 on overmantel in ground floor rear room.
Timber-framed, exposed in gable end with rendered infill. Plain
tiled steeply pitched roof with original ridge stack of gault
brick with recessed panel to base. Originally a three bay
parlour wing to a hall, now demolished. Two storeys and attic,
with the first floor jettied. Gable end has one C20 window to
each floor but the ground floor window is flanked by two,
three-light windows with original ovolo mullions. The framing
is of substantial scantling and there are curved downward braces
from the corner posts to the sill. Inside. The ceilings of the
front and rear rooms are carried on prick posts with moulded
heads. The inglenook at the rear has an overmantel of clunch in
three bays divided by short pilasters. The end bays have the
initials W.C. and S.C. and the centre bay the date 1587. There
is some original panelling with a frieze in the rear room. An
upper room has a main beam with ovolo moulding and an original
fireplace of clunch, now badly worn. The roof is of clasped,
through purlin construction. The middle rail in the North side
wall has the mortices for the floor frame of the hall.
R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p107, mon (15)
Listing NGR: TL5564862607
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