Elm House
ELM HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125941
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Elm House
- Statutory Address:
- ELM HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-06-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/04683/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125941
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Elm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELM HOUSE, MAIN 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:
- ELM HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elm
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 47114 07012
Details
TF 40 NE ELM MAIN ROAD 11/9
23.6.52 Elm House
II*
House, C.1630, with late C18 facade. Red brick, English bond with paler bricks, Flemish bond, to front wall. Parapetted roof of Collyweston slates to front range and Welsh slates to roof of rear range. Tumbled gable end parapets and projecting end stacks, one to the north corbelled out. Rear range has a ridge and end stack. T-plan. Front range of two storeys and attics. Three dormers. The parapet has recessed panels and stone coping and the facade is framed by pilaster strips and bands above first floor and between the storeys. The centre bay projects slightly. Stone sills and gauged, red brick arches to range of five recessed hung sashes each of twelve panes. Three stone steps, segmental in plan lead up to central doorway with flat hood on moulded wood brackets. Six panelled door with rectangular fanlight. The c.1630 part of the front range has rubbed brick band between the storeys. The rear range was originally of two storeys but an attic storey was added when the roof was raised in the late C18. Band at former eaves height and between storeys. At first floor, three former window openings, now blocked, with rusticated brick surrounds. Segmental arches to two late C18 flush frame hung sashes in open boxing. Doorway, opposite the stack forming a lobby entry. In north wall of rear range at ground floor one three light casement with ovolo mullions, probably reused. Interior. Late C18 main staircase of six flights and two landings, open-string with three turned balusters to each tread, moulded and raked rail with curtail and scroll tread ends. Panelled dado to staircase. One ground floor room panelled in two heights with moulded dado and modillion cornice. Shouldered fireplace surround with carved pulvinated frieze, dentils to mantel cornice and a frieze of Vitruvian scroll ornament. Shouldered and ramped overmantle with drops of fruit and foliage. Doorways have shouldered architraves. Fragments of 1630 panelling, reset, are visible in cupboards between front range and kitchen. Pevesner (Buildings of England), p.336. VCH (Cambs) Col.IV, p.183.
Listing NGR: TF4711407012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 183
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 336
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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