Wanstead House
WANSTEAD HOUSE, 2, HILLS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099114
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Wanstead House
- Statutory Address:
- WANSTEAD HOUSE, 2, HILLS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099114
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Wanstead House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WANSTEAD HOUSE, 2, HILLS ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WANSTEAD HOUSE, 2, HILLS 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 45536 57679
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/01/2013
TL 4557 17/57
942
26.4.50
HILLS ROAD
(West Side)
No 2 (Wanstead House)
GV II*
Circa 1825. 2 storeys; gault brick; plaster dressings; hipped slate roof;
symmetrically designed front with dentilled and modillioned caves-cornice;
3 windows, moulded architraves, glazing bars; central doorway with eared
architrave, swags on frieze above, flanking fluted Corinthian columns with
entablature with pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. Particularly im-
portant for the inclusion of features from Colen Campbell's 1st major work,
Wanstead House in Essex (1715-21) demolished in 1824. The entrance doorcase
as described above; other doorcases, window architraves, panelling and
plasterwork. The dining-room is particularly rich in these fittings. Also
marble fireplaces and fine wrought-iron balustrade to the staircase. Also
some good fittings of 1825. (RCHM 279).
Nos 2 to 22 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL4553657679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47483
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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