TETWORTH HALL AT END OF LANE FROM DOVE ROAD TO TETWORTH HALL

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1290026
Date first listed:: 23-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: TETWORTH HALL AT END OF LANE FROM DOVE ROAD TO TETWORTH HALL
Statutory Address:: TETWORTH HALL AT END OF LANE FROM DOVE ROAD TO TETWORTH HALL

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1290026
Date first listed:: 23-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: TETWORTH HALL AT END OF LANE FROM DOVE ROAD TO TETWORTH HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TETWORTH HALL AT END OF LANE FROM DOVE ROAD TO TETWORTH HALL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TETWORTH HALL AT END OF LANE FROM DOVE ROAD TO TETWORTH HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Waresley-cum-Tetworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 21763 53054

Details

TL 25 SW TETWORTH

8/96 (17/2) Tetworth Hall 24.10.51 at end of lane from Dove Road to Tetworth

- II*

Fine country house built 1710 by John Pedley, MP, for Huntingdonshire from 1706-08. Dated and inscribed on brick to west of doorway in north wall. Later, lower additions to east and west. Red brick with limestone dressings to south front. Parapetted, hipped roof of plain tiles, leaded, and two original ridge stacks of red brick with moulded limestone capping. Two storeys and attics. Three dormers. Symmetrically designed south front of five bays framed by giant, rusticated pilasters and band between storeys and at eaves height. Flat, gauged brick arches with stone key blocks to later flush, wood frame hung sashes, the one at ground floor to the west is blind, and stone sills. Three steps up to central doorway. Doorcase of engaged Corinthian columns with entablature and broken segmental pediment. In the tympanum there is a cartouche with a shield of arms. The north front is also of five bays and has a basement as well as two storeys and an attic. The parapetted, two storey bay to the west and the service wings to the east were added at the end of the C18. The neo-Georgian loggia was built in 1961 and is by Marshall Sisson. There are three original rainwatr heads to east and west gable ends. Interior. The house is of double pile plan and the interior details are substantially unchanged from the early C18. Nearly all the ground and first floor rooms retain the original panelling and doors. The hall has a fluted Corinthian screen at the west end and a floor of limestone slabs set diagonally. The main staircase is of three flights with a landing. It is open string with three twisted balusters, some renewed, to each tread. The back staircase is of four flights, closed string, turned balusters and square newels. At the first floor there is a small lobby to twin doorways to two rooms on the north side. The lobby is semi-domed and has a palm leaf vignette. RCHM (West Cambs) (Gamlingay) mon. (42). Pevsner: Buildings of England, p350.

Listing NGR: TL2176353054

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 395930
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 350
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.