Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128510
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128510
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE 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:
- MANOR HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fenstanton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 31074 68760
Details
FENSTANTON CAMBRIDGE ROAD 1. 5140 (north side) Manor House (formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse under Hemingford Grey Road) TL 31 68 19/6 24.10.51 II* GV 2. Early to mid C18 farmhouse, part of the Manor of Fenstanton owned by 'Capability' Brown in the late C18. L-plan. Two-storeys with attics. Steeply pitched hipped, slated roof, two symmetrical ridge stacks and gable stack to rear wing with parapet gable. Projecting modillioned eaves cornice. Three flat-roofed dormers, with horizontal sliding sashes and glazing bars. Three bays; central bay slightly projecting, of soft red brick. Ashlar pilasters at quoins, band between floors, and cappings to plinth. Symmetrical range of seven first-floor recessed hung sash windows with glazing bars in flat gauged brick arches with key blocks. Similar windows flank central doorway with original eight raised and fielded panelled door. C19 reeded doorcase with corner bosses and projecting cornice. Interior has fine original open-string staircase. Fire plaque. Sun Insurance 551360 purchase by L Brown. (Sources: VCH, RCHM p 93. Inskip Ladds Records, Norris Museum, St Ives, N Pevsner p 245).
Listing NGR: TL3107468760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53855
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 93
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1948)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 245
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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