Old Vicarage
OLD VICARAGE, 61, MILL WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127790
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD VICARAGE, 61, MILL WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127790
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD VICARAGE, 61, MILL WAY
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:
- OLD VICARAGE, 61, MILL WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grantchester
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 43494 55219
Details
TL 4355 GRANTCHESTER MILL WAY (East Side) 14/116 No. 61 (Old 31. 8.62 Vicarage) GV II
House. c.1684 and mid C20 restorations. Brick ground floor, timber-framed first floor, part replaced by brick, and original brick end walls. Painted. Tiled roofs. Original end stacks of red brick, each with rebuilt upper courses, a moulded brick cornice. The centre shaft is flanked by two diagonally set shafts. Original plan of two principal rooms with single storey kitchen to south end. Kitchen end altered C20 and now forms a crosswing. Two storeys and attic with brick band between storeys. Front wall had framing at first floor, replaced by brick probably in C19, and original late C17 brick to ground floor. Two dormers. Two recessed twelve- pane hung sashes at first floor. Original doorway probably to centre room, now blocked, and one canted bay and twelve-pane hung sash. Present doorway is to lobby entry. Early C19 flush panel door. Rear elevation has timber framing, roughcast rendered at first floor. Three casements, with some original fastenings and ironwork. The brick band is carried over an original window opening now with a C19 canted bay. The kitchen wing was originally of one storey and the roof was raised and first floor added in C20. In the garden is a sundial made up from carved medieval ecclesiastical limestone, probably Barnack and possibly originally part of a pinnacle. The upper part of the sundial is in the form of an open book and is of Ketton stone. Interior: Two original clunch fireplace surrounds at first floor, and another one of brick in an attic. There are abutting hearths to one ground floor room and the kitchen. The upper flights of both principal and service staircases are original. This is the Old Vicarage referred to by Rupert Brooke in his poetry. He moved there in 1910. R.C.H.M West Cambs., mon.(4) Rupert Brooke 1887-1915: Pamphlet Christopher Hassall: Rupert Brooke - A Biography (Faber and Faber) Sir Geoffrey Keynes (ed.): Letters of Rupert Brooke E Willmer: Old Grantchester
Listing NGR: TL4349455219
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51733
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Willmer, E, Old Granchester, ()
Hassall, C, Rupert Brooke A Biography, ()
Keynes, G, Letters of Rupert Brooke, ()
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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