Garden Building, at the Old Vicarage
GARDEN BUILDING, AT THE OLD VICARAGE, MILL WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127791
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Building, at the Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN BUILDING, AT THE OLD VICARAGE, MILL WAY
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14517/03
- Rights:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127791
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Building, at the Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN BUILDING, AT THE OLD VICARAGE, 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:
- GARDEN BUILDING, AT THE OLD VICARAGE, 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:
- TL4355255199
Details
TL 4355 GRANTCHESTER MILL WAY
(East Side)
14/117 Garden building,
at the Old Vicarage
GV II
Garden building, originally a theatre, photographic studio and a shim ruin.
c.1855. Clay bat, and yellow brick with pantiled roof and side stack of two
linked diagonally-set shafts. Irregular plan. Two storeys. Lancet windows
with casements, with some reset stained glass, and a two bay loggia.
Two-centred arch to doorway. Adjoining is a sham ruin of similar material.
Inside, the sunken ground floor forms an undercroft below a first floor room
used originally for theatrical productions. Built by Samuel Widnall who
lived at the Old Vicarage, for theatrical productions and as a photographic
studio. He was the author of several books including a local history.
E Willmer: Old Grantchester
Listing NGR: TL4355255199
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51734
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Willmer, E, Old Granchester, ()
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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