1 – 15 High Street Melbourn
1 – 15 High Street, Sheepshead Row, Melbourn
1 - 15 High Street
Listed building:
Row of seven cottages of several building periods but probably C17 and C18. Restored mid-late C20. Timber framing, partly exposed, to three centre bays with render to the rest. Long straw thatch roof with six grey brick ridge stacks of single flue.
Sheepshead Row, High Street, Melbourn, 1938 (photo P Salmon) (Cambridgeshire Collection)
The reservation of these cottages was carrie out by the Cambridge Preservation Society in 1938.However, bringing them up to modern standards proved difficult. By 1953 they were home to several families but by 1963 they were largely empty. They were only finally modernised in 2003.
1 – 15 High Street, Melbourn
Building dates
- Built 1600–1699
Sources for this date
- Built by 1899: EPC construction age band: before 1900
- Built 1600–1699: Listed building: C17 (grade II)
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