The Downs
THE DOWNS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127171
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Downs
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWNS, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12646/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127171
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Downs
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWNS, HIGH 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 DOWNS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Croxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2482959990
Details
TL 25 CROXTON HIGH STREET
(West Side)
5/110 The Downs
4. 9.84
II
Villa. Early to mid C19. Gault brick, low pitched hipped slate roof. Two
storeys with lower, rear service wing. Deep boarded eaves and plinth.
Asymmetric facade; stone steps to Tuscan portico, wide six-panelled door
with narrow side lights and rectangular fanlight. Two flanking, large
recessed ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows with flat plastered
arches and incised key blocks. Three similar, smaller first floor windows.
Verandah to west elevation with pent roof and pierced wooden frieze supported
on cast iron columns.
RCHM West Cambs. p70, mon.7
VCH, Vol. V, p36
Listing NGR: TL2482959990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 36
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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