ABINGTON HALL, BRITISH WELDING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

ABINGTON HALL BRITISH WELDING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, PAMPISFORD ROAD, CB21 6AL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1127722
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: ABINGTON HALL, BRITISH WELDING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
Statutory Address:: ABINGTON HALL BRITISH WELDING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, PAMPISFORD ROAD, CB21 6AL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1127722
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: ABINGTON HALL, BRITISH WELDING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
Statutory Address 1:: ABINGTON HALL BRITISH WELDING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, PAMPISFORD ROAD, CB21 6AL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ABINGTON HALL BRITISH WELDING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, PAMPISFORD ROAD, CB21 6AL

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:: TL 52741 48833

Details

TL 5248, 11/25

GREAT ABINGTON, PAMPISFORD ROAD (North Side), Abington Hall, British Welding Research Association

22.11.67

II*

Country house. 1711-13, much altered in the late 18th Century. Built for Maximilian Western, under the direction of Richard Humberstone, using a team of craftsmen which included the Cambridge mason Robert Grumbold. Exterior first painted c.1815 for Lord Chatham. Red brick, tuck pointed with gauged-brick dressings and with limestone details, painted with exception of south facade. Slated roofs; chimneys concealed. Three storeys with service basement. North facade of nine 'bays', with central five 'bays' slightly recessed and with giant pilastered quoins flanking end bays; continuous moulded cornice and plain parapet. Main entrance with recessed C20 glazed door and fanlight in round arch. Portico raised on stone steps with four Roman-Doric columns and entablature. Fixed-light window shaped to double-recessed round arch above; recessed hung sash windows in flat gauged-brick arches of fifteen, twelve and nine panes. Garden facade with five pedimented central 'bays', slightly advanced. Ground-floor windows and central entrance replaced with garden casements. Open verandah, a wooden trellis design with standards of three slender grouped shafts of eleven 'bays' bowed in plan to the centre 'bays' with a concave roof.

INTERIOR: The three south-facing rooms form part of the plan of the original house. North D-planned lobby, two storeys high with Doric columns carrying first-floor passage, central east-west corridor with access to east, west and south rooms with open string staircase to north west. Ceilings to lobby and staircase with enriched moulding enclosing oval panels, and enriched cornices to main rooms and corridor; late C19 Jacobean revival ceilings to two south rooms. Central room with Ionic columned recess to west and chimney piece with swags, urns and figures in Adam-style, has imported C17 oak panelling. Recessed buffet with panelled doors to cupboards in south-west room, north-west room has Corinthian columns at the south end and chimney piece with foliated consoles and swags and figures in the surrounds. North-east room with C20 partitions retains an early C19 marble chimney piece with fluted pilasters. Ground floor windows with panelled shutters, and six-panelled doors with applied mouldings to each panel. Door architraves moulded with frieze and cornice enriched with urns swags and festoons. The south-west room has an inserted ceiling. The upper floors have been altered for student accommodation, and a concrete staircase built to the north-east.

The grounds were laid out by Humphry Repton c.1800. The late C18 and early C19 details are similar to those at Abington Lodge also the home of Mr Mortlock. The estate was owned by the Earls of Oxford till 1610; Mr Mortlock purchased the estate in 1779. The last Mortlock owner was transported for firing on his uncle, vicar of Little Abington, whom he believed had cheated him out of part of his inheritance. The house was let to the Earl of Chatham amongst others in the early C19.

Palmer, W.M. 'The Neighbourhood of Hildersham', 1924 R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p Pevsner. Buildings of England, p395

Listing NGR: TL5274148833

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Legacy System number:: 51867
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Palmer, W M, The Neighbourhood of Hildersham, (1924)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 395
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978)
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.