Church Army Hostel.
1-5, FAIR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126214
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church Army Hostel.
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, FAIR STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126214
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church Army Hostel.
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, FAIR STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 19, WILLOW WALK
- Statutory Address 3:
- CHURCH ARMY HOSTEL., FAIR STREET
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:
- 1-5, FAIR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 19, WILLOW WALK
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH ARMY HOSTEL., FAIR STREET
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 45579 58729
Details
FAIR STREET 1. 942 (East Side) Nos 1 to 5 (consec). Church Army Hostel. TL 4558 NE 5/492 II 2. With No 19, Willow Walk. Circa 1820. Built by Charles Humphrey as part of the Doll's Close development (see Maid's Causeway). Grey gault brick. Uniform frontage to Nos 1-5, each house of 2 bays, then a wide segmental- headed carriage arch and the hostel of 5 bays. 2 storeys, and basement, sashes with glazing bars. Timber doorcases with side-pilasters and plain entablatures. Slate roof. The north gable end of No 1 forms the original east end-feature of Maid's Causeway. A broad wall arch with elliptical head and pediment over a window for each floor within the arch, the basement and 1st floor windows partly concealed. The return wall of the hostel in Willow Walk is of 3 bays with 2 pilaster strips. Carved street nameplate. (RCHM 266).
Listing NGR: TL4557958729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47424
- 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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