Abington Lodge
65 AND 67, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127710
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abington Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- 65 AND 67, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127710
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abington Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- 65 AND 67, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ABINGTON LODGE, 63, HIGH STREET, CB21 6AB
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:
- 65 AND 67, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ABINGTON LODGE, 63, HIGH STREET, CB21 6AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Abington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5344648912
Details
TL 5248,
11/1
GREAT ABINGTON,
HIGH STREET (East Side),
No. 63 (Abington Lodge) and Nos. 65 and 67
G.V.
II
House and two flats. c.1660 built for Thos. Cobb, rebuilt by Capt. Roger
Sizer (d.1724), enlarged c.1730 by Col. Vachell, and altered by John
Mortlock, the banker, c.1815, enlarged and altered possibly by E. J. Mortlock
(d. 1902) in mid C19. Timber-framed and plastered, painted red brick with low-pitched, hipped, slated roofs. Rebuilt ridge stack and two rear stacks. Two
storeys and cellars. Early C18 square plan with service wing to north-east
incorporates the hall and wing of the C17 house. Early C19 alterations
include the refenestration of the west facade, blocking of the central
doorway and resiting the main entrance to the north in a single storey closed
porch with an oval planned lobby, (this entrance was blocked c.1960 and the
west entrance restored). Mid C19 drawing room and conservatory added to east
facade and service wing doubled, the whole building reroofed and unified by
deep boarded modillioned eaves. Conservatory demolished c.1960.
West facade: Symmetrical five 'bays' with mid C20 restored pedimented
doorcase and six-panelled door approached by stone steps. Four ground-floor
early C19 twelve-paned hung sash windows recessed in slightly enlarged
openings with wooden lintels below gauged-brick arches, five smaller first-floor windows. North facade: with C19 entrance blocked with inserted window
below wide fanlight with glazing bars. Two late C17 (and one in service
wing) twelve-paned hung sash windows with ovolo-moulded glazing bars in
segmental arches, C18 panelled pargetting.
INTERIOR: C17 details include
some two-panelled doors, boxed ceiling beams, large C17 hearth to north-east
room with mantel beam; early C18 panelling and moulded cornices to
north-east room and two first floor rooms; some six-panelled late C18
doors; early C19 open string staircase with finely fluted balusters,
south-west room with recess and pair of Ionic columns, cornice and ceiling
lightly decorated with guilloche patterns, six-panelled doors and shutters to
garden door and windows; mid C19 panelled doors, skirting boards and ceiling
cornices, round arched openings to marble chimney pieces. The house was
rented to Lord Grosvenor from 1775 to 1780 as a shooting box, the north-west
room was used as the gun room. The grounds are said to have been laid out by
Humphry Repton.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951
V.C.H. Vol. VI, p6
Sale bill, Cambridge Chronicle 5 September 1795
Listing NGR: TL5344648912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51843
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 6
Cambridge Chronicle in Cambridge Chronicle - 5 September Sale Bill, (1795)
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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