Rayners Farmhouse
RAYNERS FARMHOUSE, 59, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128023
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rayners Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RAYNERS FARMHOUSE, 59, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128023
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rayners Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAYNERS FARMHOUSE, 59, NORTH ROAD
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:
- RAYNERS FARMHOUSE, 59, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittlesford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 46553 48598
Details
TL 4648 WHITTLESFORD NORTH ROAD (South side) 10/337 22.11.67 No.59 (Rayners Farmhouse GV II* Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16 with late C16,C18 and C19 modifications and additions. Timber-framed and plastered, plain tiled roofs. Late C16 square planned red brick ridge stack with grouped shafts to left hand and gable end stack with two diagonal shafts to right hand. Two storeys with attic and semi basement. Original five bay long jetty building altered in late C16 to present plan of cross wing to left hand with two storey porch and lobby entry. Jetty with curved brackets at each of three bays with large C15 roll-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window to right hand of six-panelled door. First floor C15 oriel window with brackets and cill possible replacements of an original moulded cill. Boarded door to porch with sealed window above and in gable of cross wing. Interior: C15 hollow-chamfered cross beams and cambered tie beams with deeply chamfered crown post braced to collar purlin and collar. Late C16 inserted doorways, attic floor with wave-moulded ceiling beam, clunch fire places with four centred arches partly sealed by inserted C19 hearths. Early C17 panelling in ground floor room. RCHM report 1949 VCH Vol.VI p.264,270
Listing NGR: TL4655348598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53155
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 264
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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