The Almshouses the School House
THE ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127746
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses the School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127746
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses the School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, 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:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, 1-4, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, 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:
- Babraham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51297 50419
Details
TL 5050 BABRAHAM HIGH STREET (North-West Side)
8/47 The School House and 22.11.67 Nos. 1,2,3, and 4, The Almshouses
II*
Three dwellings, formerly a school and six almshouses. 1732, inscribed stone plaque 'THIS SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL WERE ERECTED AND ENDOW'D BY THE MUNIFICENCE OF MRS JUDITH BENNET DAUGHTER OF Sr LEVINUS BENNET BARc AND AUGMENTED BY LIBERALITY OF JAMES BUSH ESQre AND LEVINUS BUSH ESQre HIS SON ANNO Dmi ; 1732'. The school buildings were in use till 1959. The almshouses were converted to four dwellings in 1959-60. Walls of red brick coursed in header bond with gauged brick dressings and plain tiled roofs. Symmetrical plan, two storey pedimented central block with single storey wings. Each wing originally with three one-roomed houses now converted to two. Main entrance facade: central block with side stacks, moulded wooden eaves cornice and enrichment to pediment; gauged brick band between floors and gauged brick window arches. Wooden doorcase with shallow hood supported on shaped brackets, four-flush-panelled door with stone plaque above. Two ground floor and three first floor C20 casement windows in original openings. Wings with end stacks, parapet gables, and ridge stacks. Original entrances altered to two with half-glazed doors and rectangular fanlights in each wing, and with one original casement window with small panes and two C20 casement windows.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p29 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p294
Listing NGR: TL5129750419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51833
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 29
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 294
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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