Tower Farmhouse
Tower Farmhouse, Tower Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127026
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Tower Farmhouse, Tower Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127026
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tower Farmhouse, Tower 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:
- Tower Farmhouse, Tower Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Downham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5191984195
Details
TL 58 SW
4/21
DOWNHAM
TOWER ROAD (North Side)
Tower Farmhouse
5.2.52
GV
II
Farmhouse. Late C15 walls of Bishop of Ely's Palace to west and north included in fabric of C19 building. Gault brick, C15 red brick; plain tile roof with end stacks and ridge stack to right of centre. Two storeys, three 'bays'. Three ground floor recessed sixteen-paned hung sash windows in cambered brick arches, main entrance through closed, gabled porch with four-panelled door; three first floor twelve-paned hung sash windows.
Listing NGR: TL5191984195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bishopric of Ely Lease Book, (1746), 318-321
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 92
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 330
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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