Listing Text

In the entry for:
REACH THE HYTHE
(south-west side)

White Roses

The item shall be amended to read: THE HYTHE
(south-west side)

1.12.51 White Roses
(formerly listed as
Old Vicarage)

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TL 5666 REACH THE HYTHE
(south-west side)

13/154 White Roses

II

House, formerly the vicarage. Early C16 with alterations in
c.1700 and C19. Original building timber-framed, jettied with
three unit plan and two storey gabled porch to south-east
elevation. Service end to south-west partly cased in local red
brick c.1700 with side stack to south-east and plain tile roof
rebuilt as hip. Parlour wing replaced in late C19 by red brick
and tile wing after a fire. C19 brick and plain tile lean-to to
left hand of porch; to right hand, C19 gabled porch re-using
medieval clunch with four-centred arch. Rear wing C18 with date
stone 1516 reset. Two storeys. Timber-frame partly exposed
with brick nogging and plastered and boxed. Moulded eaves
cornice. C18 entrance with six-panelled door. Windows include
two horizontal sliding sash windows with eight panes, one C18
twelve-paned hung sash window to right hand of door and one
small casement window. Interior, very fine folded ribbon
decoration to roll moulded cross beams and joists with roll and
cyma moulding and leaf stops to hall and original porch. Jamb
for cross passage door survives. Inglenook hearth with C18 over
mantel; bolection moulded chimney piece to first floor room.
Staircase early C18 in original position with pierced flat
balusters. Side purlin roof, but with earlier associations with
the river trade lying south of a dock with access to The Hythe
(C Taylor, Cambs. Landscape, pp.236-8).

RCHM, North-East Cambridgeshire, p.88, mon.18
Pevsner. Buildings of England, p.452
Taylor C. Cambridgeshire Landscape, p.236-8, 1973

Listing NGR: TL5650466274