HOBSON'S CONDUIT

HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1067788
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: HOBSON'S CONDUIT
Statutory Address:: HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1067788
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: HOBSON'S CONDUIT
Statutory Address 1:: HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: HOBSON'S CONDUIT, TRUMPINGTON ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD
Statutory Address:: HOBSON'S CONDUIT, TRUMPINGTON ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 45152 57638

Details

TRUMPINGTON ROAD 1. 942 (East Side) TL 4557 NW 10/209 26.4.50. Hobson's Conduit II* 2. Erected on Market Hill 1614, re-erected in present position in 1856. Hexagonal stone structure with moulded plinth; niche in each side with shell-head; entablature surmounted by strapwork cresting, achievement of Royal Arms on one side, putti and carved beasts at angles and ogee-shaped top surmounted by pineapple finial. Restored 1967. Interesting as the fountainhead of a very early public water supply. See also Market Hill. (RCHM 79).

Listing NGR: TL4515257638

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Legacy System number:: 47826
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,

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