Limes Park
LIMES PARK, 1-33, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128480
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jan-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Limes Park
- Statutory Address:
- LIMES PARK, 1-33, LONDON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128480
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jan-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Limes Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIMES PARK, 1-33, LONDON 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:
- LIMES PARK, 1-33, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemingford Grey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30784 70350
Details
HEMINGFORD GREY LONDON ROAD 1. 5140 (west side) Limes Park (Nos 1 to 33 (consec)) (formerly listed as The Old Workhouse) TL 37 SW 7/23 5.1.76 II 2. Formerly St Ives Union Workhouse, built 1838-9. Architect N Nash. Two-storeys. Central administrative block with two flanking wings and corner pavilions. Two parallel ranges to rear of pavilions, and detached service block, enclose a courtyard. Gault brick, slate roof hipped at centre block and pavilions. Stacks of two and three shafts with common entablatures. Hung sash windows in round-headed arches. Central door with moulded architrave, semi-circular fan-light in round-headed arch. Cast-iron window frames with glazing bars in round-headed arches and doors in cambered and round-headed arches to back ranges. Accommodation at first-floor serviced by corridor open to courtyard with plain iron railings and internal stone staircase. Built at a cost of £4,000 for 400 inmates for the St Ives Union. Until recently was divided into dwellings and apartments. (Source: Inskip Ladds Records, Norris Museum, St Ives).
Listing NGR: TL3078470350
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53991
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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