THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE

THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE, CLAYHITHE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1127370
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE, CLAYHITHE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1127370
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE, CLAYHITHE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE, CLAYHITHE ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Horningsea
National Grid Reference:: TL 50222 64433

Details

TL 56 SW HORNINGSEA CLAYHITHE ROAD (North Side)

8/62 The Conservators House

II

Toll-house, dated 1842 on stone plaque in north gable. Gault brick with limestone dressings. Plain tile roof with patterned ridge tiles. Two storeys with cellars; T-plan gabled wing to west of main facade facing north. Tudor style. Shaped gables with apex finials. Two large ridge stacks with recessed round arched panels and stone cornice. Three first floor two- and three-light mullioned and transomed casement windows. Two similar three-light windows at ground floor extended in wing to height of plinth. Plain, double pilastered stone architrave with recessed four-panelled door and patterned round headed arched fanlight to north. Interior. Committee room, over barrel-vaulted cellars, used by the Conservators of the river Cam who were appointed following the act of 1702 'for making the River Cham ..... more navigable from Clay-Hithe-Ferry, to the Queen's Mill .....'. R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 69, mon. 2. Clay, W.K. Parish of Horningsey. C.A.S. Pub. 1865 p.22 Reprint of Act, 1702. C.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL5022264433

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Legacy System number:: 50610
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, (1865), 22
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.