Spinney Abbey
SPINNEY ABBEY, STRETHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126430
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Spinney Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- SPINNEY ABBEY, STRETHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126430
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Spinney Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPINNEY ABBEY, STRETHAM 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:
- SPINNEY ABBEY, STRETHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wicken
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55502 71753
Details
TL 57 NE WICKEN STRETHAM ROAD (South Side) 8/106 Spinney Abbey
II
House dated 1775 on right hand gabled end on or near the site of a C13 priory of Augustinian Canons. The house is built on a plan of two parallel gables linked by a short hall range. The walls are of coursed Barnack ashlar reused from the priory and also of clunch, probably from Burwell. There is some gault brick in the rear walls. Plain tiled gable roofs. Two storeys and attics. Garden front has two cross-frame casements with later glazing, to each gable end and a central doorway. A similar window in the rear wall still retains its original leaded lights. Inside there are two early C17 doors reset in an attic and some square sunken panelling of similar date reset in a bedroom. The house has a cellar lined with clunch with an early C17 stop chamfered ceiling beam. A ground floor room has a reused beam of similar date set diagonally. In the kitchen there is a 1775 shouldered fireplace surround and a corner cupboard with raised and fielded panelling. In the garden to the west there are a number of pieces of C14 moulded Barnack limestone from the priory. One is a wheel-cross, another a bell shaped capital and others quatrefoils with small shafts where the foils meet, the latter pieces of stone probably formed part of an arcade. RCHM: Record Card. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p.485.
Listing NGR: TL5550271753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 485
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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