Lady Peytons Almshouses
LADY PEYTONS ALMSHOUSES, 15-23, THE CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126468
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Peytons Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- LADY PEYTONS ALMSHOUSES, 15-23, THE CAUSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126468
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Peytons Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADY PEYTONS ALMSHOUSES, 15-23, THE 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:
- LADY PEYTONS ALMSHOUSES, 15-23, THE CAUSEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Isleham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 64498 74412
Details
TL 6474 ISLEHAM THE CAUSEWAY (North Side) 14/1 Nos. 15-23 (odd nos.) (Lady Peytons Almshouses)
II
Almhouses built in 1842, restored and modernised in 1982. Clunch with red brick casing and yellow brick quoins, and dressings to door and window openings. Low pitch, hipped slate roof with ridge stacks. Single storey. Originally the front elevation had five Y-casements and five doorways all in pointed arches with moulded labels of stone, now three of the doorways have been converted to windows. The almshouses were re-estab- lished by Lady Frances Peyton in 1582.
Listing NGR: TL6449874412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48812
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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