The Elms
THE ELMS, THE FIRST DRIFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127454
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms
- Statutory Address:
- THE ELMS, THE FIRST DRIFT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127454
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ELMS, THE FIRST DRIFT
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 ELMS, THE FIRST DRIFT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Martin's Without
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 03049 06097
Details
1. 5141 WOTHORPE THE FIRST DRIFT The Elms (Priory College) TF 00 NW 1/706 II 2. On the common boundary of the Parishes of St Martin's Without and Wothorpe. Built circa 1850 and possibly by the architect E Browning for himself. Large Gothic style house with some re-used imported medieval fragments. Collyweston stone roof. Asymmetrical and gabled. Two storeys. Right hand projects with gable incorporated into truncated stair tower with shouldered lancets and with central first floor stone Gothic oriel, Romanesque doorway with one order of shafts and to right 3 small lancets 2 with re-used Norman heads with zigzag carving. Set back to right is a single storey lean-to with re-used 3-light Perpendicular traceried window. To left gabled semi-dormer and 2 projecting asymmetrical gables, one incorporating chimney stack with terracotta shafts. Stone mullion windows, some are re-used medieval traceried windows. Two storeyed canted bay on south-west end. Gabled north-west side with Gothic windows. Interior: the hall, vestibule, library and lining hall have coffered timber ceilings. The hall has a dado with re-used medieval traceried panels and a frieze (C15) a Jacobean style screen and a staircase with twisted balusters and pierced string with consoles. The library has fine carved medieval (and C16?) panels and pilasters reworked into Victorian panelling, and Victorian stencilled walls.
Listing NGR: TF0304906097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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