Dears Farmhouse

DEARS FARMHOUSE, 2 AND 4, FARDELLS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127269
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1962
List Entry Name:
Dears Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
DEARS FARMHOUSE, 2 AND 4, FARDELLS LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127269
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1962
List Entry Name:
Dears Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
DEARS FARMHOUSE, 2 AND 4, FARDELLS LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DEARS FARMHOUSE, 2 AND 4, FARDELLS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Elsworth
National Grid Reference:
TL 31568 63814

Details

TL 3063-3163 ELSWORTH FARDELL'S LANE (North Side)

12/56 Nos 2 and 4 31.8.62 (Dears Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Date 1601 RH, ISC. Carved on beam, includes one bay of earlier building and extension possibly C18 to west. Timber frame exposed with plastered panels and plastered timber frame. Red brick ridge stack partly plastered with grouped shafts rebuilt. Two storeys and one storey and attic. Main range with continuous jetty and original entrance to north. Main entrance to left hand with six-panelled door in reeded doorcase. Two small horizontal sliding sash windows and two canted bay hung sash windows below jetty with carved fascia. Four first floor horizontal sliding sash windows and one restored three-light mullioned window. Interior has inglenook hearths anti ovolo moulded and chamfered axial beams. R.C.H.M. West Cambs mon.5 p.87 Evans, E. The Church and Village of Elsworth 1981

Listing NGR: TL3156863814

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
50965
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Sources

Books and journals
Evans, E, The Church and Village of Elsworth, (1981)

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.

Ordnance survey map of Dears Farmhouse

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