20, MAID'S CAUSEWAY, 8-18, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
20, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126163
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MAID'S CAUSEWAY, 8-18, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
- Statutory Address:
- 20, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126163
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- 20, MAID'S CAUSEWAY, 8-18, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
- Statutory Address 2:
- 8-18, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
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:
- 20, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
- Statutory Address:
- 8-18, MAID'S CAUSEWAY
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 45532 58731
Details
MAID'S CAUSEWAY 1. 942 (South Side) 26.4.50. Nos 8 to 18 (even) 29.3.62. No 20 TL 4558 NW 4/109 TL 4558 NE 5/109 II GV 2. Terrace of 6 houses connected by low brick walls. Each house similar; early C19; 2 storeys with attics; gault brick; mansard slate attics; symmetrically designed front; stone band at 1st floor window cill level and small moulded wood cornice below parapet; 3 windows (glazing bars missing from Nos 8 and 12). Doorcase with panelled pilasters and small pediment, 4 panelled door. No 12 has plaster porch with Doric columns and entablature. As Nos 4 and 6 (qv) Nos 18 and 20 have the appearance of being one house but have always been a pair. Part of Charles Humfrey's Doll's Close Development l815-26 (see also Short Street, Fair Street and Willow Walk). (RCHM 266). Nos 4 to 20 (even) form a group with No 1 Fair Street and No 1 Short Street.
Listing NGR: TL4553258731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47588
- 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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