Countess of Hardwicke Almhouses
COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES, 123, 125, 127 AND 129, ERMINE WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128200
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Countess of Hardwicke Almhouses
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES, 123, 125, 127 AND 129, ERMINE WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128200
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Countess of Hardwicke Almhouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES, 123, 125, 127 AND 129, ERMINE 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:
- COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES, 123, 125, 127 AND 129, ERMINE WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arrington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32782 50300
Details
ARRINGTON ERMINE WAY TL 3250 (West side) 15/10 Nos 123, 125, 127, 16.7.79 129 (Countess of Hardwicke Almshouses) (formerly listed as Nos 119-129)
GV II
Six almshouses, now four. 1846 to the design of H E Kendall for Susan, fourth Countess of Hardwicke, in memory of her mother. Red brick and Ketton limestone dressings. Fishscale patterned tiled roof. Four symmetrically disposed ridge stacks, reproducing those of C17, with panelled sides in arched heads, stone dressings and entablature. Single range with wings at north and south ends. Single storey main range has a central porch with shaped gable parapet with shield of arms of Earls of Hardwicke to the tympanum. Four centred arch in square head with stepped stone label. Adjacent doorways with original boarded doors, cover strips and iron furniture. Four, three-light casements. Wings are of two storeys with shaped gable end parapets and rusticated stone quoins. Each has a casement at first floor and a three-light cross-frame casement at ground floor. Gabled porch in each angle, with similar adjacent doorways, one now blocked. There is a paved stone terrace on the front approached by a flight of three steps.
RCHM: West Cambs mon (8)
Listing NGR: TL3278250301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52674
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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