Chestnut Farmhouse and Former Shop
CHESTNUT FARMHOUSE AND FORMER SHOP, 2, STOCKS GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130076
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Farmhouse and Former Shop
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUT FARMHOUSE AND FORMER SHOP, 2, STOCKS GREEN
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- Date:
- 2006-11-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/16115/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130076
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Farmhouse and Former Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUT FARMHOUSE AND FORMER SHOP, 2, STOCKS GREEN
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:
- CHESTNUT FARMHOUSE AND FORMER SHOP, 2, STOCKS GREEN
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:
- TL 08516 93971
Details
In the entry for:-
ELTON STOCKS GREEN (north side)
15/89 No. 2 (Chestnut Farmhouse) and former shop
The third sentence shall be amended to read:- "Coursed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings, C19 rock faced limestone with collyweston stone slated roofs and C19 plain tiled roof."
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ELTON STOCKS GREEN TL 0893 (North Side) 15/89 No. 2 (Chestnut Farmhouse) and former shop GV II Farmhouse, and shop to east. Dated '1740 RJM' on oval plaque below eaves; c.1880 butcher's shop replacing service range with original shop. Coursed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings, C19 rock faced limestone with Collyweston stone slated roofs and C19 red pantiled roof. Two storeys and attic, symmetrical facade of three 'bays'. Parapet gables with chamfered copings and ashlar end stacks. Wooden, moulded eaves cornice. Four-panelled door with rectangular fanlight; two ground floor casement windows with wooden lintels and three similar first floor windows. Fire insurance plaque above. first floor window. Quoin stone inscribed 'John Read 1771'. Single storey shop to east with two paired two-light windows and two paired sixteen-paned hung sash windows with gabled roof above and mock timber-frame and tracery. Shop entrance and two windows forming three equal bays in wide two-centred east gable archway, both windows with drop shutters. Interior of farmhouse; boxed ceiling beams, sealed hearths, C18 cornice to western room, C18 panelling to central stairs and two-panelled doors.
Clark, A. Photographic Collection _
Listing NGR: TL0851693971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54897
- 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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