8, CATHEDRAL SQUARE
8, CATHEDRAL SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126953
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 8, CATHEDRAL SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 8, CATHEDRAL SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126953
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 8, CATHEDRAL SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, CATHEDRAL SQUARE
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:
- 8, CATHEDRAL SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 19150 98613
Details
1. PETERBOROUGH 1500 CATHEDRAL SQUARE (South Side) No 8 TL 1998 NW 1/407 II 2. Dated 1911, and listed solely as a curiosity. 3 storeys, half-timbered. 3 gables with finials contain 3 local coats of arms and pargetted plasterwork above 2 canted bays of 6 lights, with wood transoms and mullions and rounded bays on the 1st floor under pentice tile roofs. The main feature of the front is 5 brightly-painted statues in niches. Athelwold, bishop of Winchester (over) Prince Rupert and King Peada (over) the Earl of Essex flank a central statue of Henry VIII. To the right an octagonal turret of 2 storeys with candle-snuffer roof. The ground floor is entirely occupied by a modern shop front. As a visual group with the Old Guild Hall this building has a certain curiosity value.
Listing NGR: TL1915098613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49601
- 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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