The Priory
THE PRIORY, 16, MIDDLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130063
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, 16, MIDDLE STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-03-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06542/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130063
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, 16, MIDDLE 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:
- THE PRIORY, 16, MIDDLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0866693852
Details
TL 0893
15/60
ELTON
MIDDLE STREET
(North Side)
No. 16 (The Priory)
GV
II
House. Possibly C17 incorporating some medieval material, partly rebuilt and
refronted mid to late C19. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar limestone; and
moulded Ketton stone details. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Two storeys
with attics. Main east-west range with projecting wing to right hand.
Parapet gables with end stacks and ridge stack to right of centre, left hand
stack with paired ashlar shafts and cornice, right hand stacks both with
paired octagonal ashlar shafts. Entrance porch to left of centre with parapet
gable and finial, panelled door shaped to four-centred chamfered arch. Two
storey bay window to left hand with parapet facade gable behind, and with hung
sashes in four-centred heads with spandrels. Square-planned bay window to
right hand with hung sashes between ovolo mullions, two first floor casement
windows with two lights and one three-light casement window at each floor of
cross wing. Two gabled casement dormer windows. The house was altered by
John Lawrence, agent to Elton Hall estate c.1860. The wing to the right hand
formerly extended to the road.
R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, mon.15, p83
Clark, A. Photographic Collection
Listing NGR: TL0866693852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54868
- 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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