Queens House
QUEENS HOUSE, 16, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127677
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Queens House
- Statutory Address:
- QUEENS HOUSE, 16, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127677
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Queens House
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEENS HOUSE, 16, 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:
- QUEENS HOUSE, 16, 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:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55938 46632
Details
TL 5446 LINTON HIGH STREET (South-East Side)
15/148 No. 16 (Queens House) 22.11.67 GV II*
House. Dated rainwater head 'W.C. 1731' and carved brick 'I. WEBB 1731' in rear wall, with alterations c.1780-90 to street facade and incorporating as service wing an original C17 two unit plan lobby entry building. Red brick, stuccoed to north-west, with timber-framed and plastered rear wing. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with attics main north-west range with rear staircase hall linked to earlier building of two storeys. Main facade; parapet gables and end stacks and plain parapet above. Wooden eaves cornice with modillions; plastered brick plinth. Two storey canted bay windows with hung sashes rising to cornice level. Central twelve-paned hung sash window with flush-frame above entrance door of six panels and fanlight with radial glazing bars. Wooden doorcase with attached columns on square bases with dentil enriched entablature. Central ridge cupola with glazed lights, and leaded ogee cap. Interior: Early C18 staircase with turned balusters, and panelling. House possibly built for Thos. Talbot steward of Linton Manors c.1730. Palmer, M W, & Morley. Photographic Collection. pl, 22. 1913 C.C. R.C.H.M. Report 1951 Stevens, R L Linton P.C. Pub. 1983 V.C.H. Vol. VI, p82 Barham Manor Map 1785. Pembroke College Millicent Map 1600. Pembroke College
Listing NGR: TL5593846632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51962
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 82
Stevens, R L, Linton, ()
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
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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