Caldrees Manor
CALDREES MANOR, 2, ABBEY STREET, CB10 1SS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128048
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Caldrees Manor
- Statutory Address:
- CALDREES MANOR, 2, ABBEY STREET, CB10 1SS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128048
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Caldrees Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- CALDREES MANOR, 2, ABBEY STREET, CB10 1SS
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:
- CALDREES MANOR, 2, ABBEY STREET, CB10 1SS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ickleton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49306 43805
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/09/2016
TL 4843
21/200
ICKLETON,
ABBEY STREET (North-west side),
No. 2 (Caldrees Manor)
(Formerly listed as No. 2 (Caldress Manor))
22.11.67
GV
II
Large house. Possibly C16 or C17 origins with c.1800 additions by
P C Wyndham and later C19 additions and alterations by Sir Robert Herbert;
(service wing demolished c.1980). Gault brick with C20 red plain tiled
roofs. Red brick C19 end stacks and large C17 square planned ridge stack in
south-east elevation, three C19 stacks in north-west elevation. Three bay
red brick range to south-west possibly C18 partly rebuilt. Two storeys with
attics. Original three unit plan timber-framed building to south-east,
extended to north-west c.1800, and to north-east in two C19 extensions when
the main facade was rebuilt and the former entrance removed and re-sited to
north-east. Reused rainwater head dated 1758 re-sited in north-west
elevation. South-east elevation: Ten unequal bays; main entrance with
gabled porch with attached sandstone columns, free acanthus capitals and
bases, four-centred arch with inset shield of arms, six-panelled door with
side lights. Three rectangular planned two-storey bay windows to left hand;
hung sash windows at both floor levels of various sizes with glazing bars,
and gauged brick window arches. Parapet gable to right hand slightly
advanced and continuous around bay windows with stone and cornice band
coping. Commemoration plaque beside entrance inscribed 'Queensland Women's
Historical Association 1964. First and youngest premier. Sir Robert G
Wyndham Herbert 1859 (1829-1905)'. Mid C18 entrance door re-sited in
north-east elevation; wooden rusticated backing, six raised-and-fielded-
panelled-door with integral round headed fanlight and flanking pilasters.
INTERIOR: Remodelled in C19 with original floor levels altered. Drawing
room and library with pillared entrance from passage and two early C18
chimney pieces one with Rococo detail, rooms to north altered later in C19 as
library and passage blocked. Doors to drawing room and dining room with
fluted architraves and corner bosses, one pair of doors segmental in plan.
Hall chimney piece rebuilt with late C17 fluted Ionic pilasters said to have
originated from The Grange, Ickleton; fluted architraves to late C19
panelled doors, and early C18 chimney piece re-sited in former billiard room.
VCH Vol. VI p.234
RCHM Report 1949
Bristowe, R.L. Ickleton 1984
Listing NGR: TL4930643805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 234
Bristowe, R L, Ickleton, (1984)
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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