Cowper House
COWPER HOUSE, 29 30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128638
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cowper House
- Statutory Address:
- COWPER HOUSE, 29 30, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128638
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cowper House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWPER HOUSE, 29 30, HIGH STREET
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:
- COWPER HOUSE, 29 30, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Huntingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23993 71651
Details
Huntingdon HIGH STREET 1. 5140 (South-West Side) ---------------- Nos 29 and 30 TL 2371 2/26 10.1.51. (Cowper House) TL 2471 3/26 II* GV
2. Early C18, possibly older at rear. 2 storeys with attics, red brick, tile roof, band between storeys and modillioned eaves cornice. 11 windows, 3 middle bays slightly projecting and with pediment. 2 round-headed doorways with cornices; 6-panel doors in panelled reveals, pilasters, dentil cornice to No 29, console brackets to No 30. 2 small modern period shopfronts. Painted arched window in pediment. The windows on the lst floor are the original flush framed sashes with glazing bars, the centre 3 have cut brick heads as do the ground floor ones. Old tile roof, 2 flat topped dormers on either side of the pediment, big central brick stack. The interior contains a good panelled room of circa 1720 and fragments of C16 wall paintings. Home of William Cowper 1765-1767. Similar rear elevation. (RCHM 29).
Listing NGR: TL2399371651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926)
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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