2-17, WILLOW WALK

2-17, WILLOW WALK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1126026
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
2-17, WILLOW WALK
Statutory Address:
2-17, WILLOW WALK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1126026
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
2-17, WILLOW WALK
Statutory Address 1:
2-17, WILLOW WALK

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
2-17, WILLOW WALK

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 45522 58695

Details

WILLOW WALK 1. 942 Nos 2 to 17 (consec) TL 4558 NW 4/714 TL 4558 NE 5/714 II 2. 1815-17. Designed and built by Charles Humphrey. A symmetrical terrace with a central pedimented feature over Nos 9 and 10. 2 storeys and basements. Grey gault brick, The pediment is 3 bays wide supported by brick pilasters and has a timber cornice. Nos 2 and 17 also project slightly and have their entrance on the return walls. The other doors are paired in elliptical arches except for Nos 9 and 10. Most of the doors are panelled. 25 windows to the whole frontage, sashes with glazing bars, the ground floor ones at either end set in elliptically headed recesses. Some original interior features. Slate roof. Cast-iron lamp brackets with lanterns on Nos 6 and 13. (RCHM 266). Part of the Doll's Close development see also Maid's Causeway, Short Street and Fair Street.

Listing NGR: TL4552258695

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Legacy System number:
47892
Legacy System:
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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.

Ordnance survey map of 2-17, WILLOW WALK

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