The Corner House
THE CORNER HOUSE, 2, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126473
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Corner House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CORNER HOUSE, 2, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126473
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Corner House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CORNER HOUSE, 2, CHURCH 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:
- THE CORNER HOUSE, 2, CHURCH STREET
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 64412 74401
Details
TL 6474 ISLEHAM CHURCH STREET (North Side) 14/6 No. 2 (The Corner House) GV II House, late C17 or early C18, built on a restricted site. Extended in C18 at rear. Brick, part rendered with chequer- board pattern brick-work to right-hand gable end. Parapet, possibly later, to plain tiled roof, hipped at angle, with shaped end parapet to right hand gable end and initials R.M. in wrought iron. Two storeys and attics. Two later eaves dormers. Four flush frame hung sashes of twelve panes each. One double fronted shop front and two similar hung sashes at ground floor. Stair turret in angle at rear. Pedimented doorcase, early C19. Rear range, C18, red brick painted and of one storey and attic. Plain tiled steeply pitched roof with a saw tooth eaves cornice and a ridge stack. Doorway from Church Lane has an early C19 reeded doorcase with boss enrichments at the corners. Inside the shop and an upstairs room are lined with early C18 raised and fielded panelling in two heights with a moulded cornice. The rear range has c.1840 plaster boss and cornice mouldings. The house is a good example of commercial premises associated with a south Fenland port (RCHM). RCHM: Record Card.
Listing NGR: TL6441274401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48817
- 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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