The Conservators House
THE CONSERVATORS HOUSE, CLAYHITHE ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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