COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES

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
List Entry Name:: COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES
Statutory Address:: COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES, 123, 125, 127 AND 129, ERMINE WAY

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Date:: 2000-05-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1128200
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: COUNTESS OF HARDWICKE ALMHOUSES, 123, 125, 127 AND 129, ERMINE WAY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 52674
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.