Rectory Farmhouse and Garden Wall to West

RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO WEST, 2, MIDDLE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130098
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse and Garden Wall to West
Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO WEST, 2, MIDDLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130098
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse and Garden Wall to West
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO WEST, 2, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL TO WEST, 2, 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:
TL 08781 93811

Details

In the entry for:-

ELTON MIDDLE STREET (north side)

15/53 No. 2 (Rectory Farmhouse) and garden wall to west

The seventh sentence of the description shall be amended to read:- "Street elevation; wide four-panelled door and two three-light and four-light casement windows with wooden lintels; one three-light and two two-light first floor casement windows."

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ELTON MIDDLE STREET TL 0893 (North Side) 15/53 No. 2 (Rectory Farmhouse) and 19.9.85 garden wall to west GV II House, formerly a farmhouse, and garden wall to west. Late C17 with C19 alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with some large possibly reused dressed limestone blocks, and freestone quoins; C19 brick. C20 tiled roof. Brick ridge stack to right hand, and ashlar limestone shafts with common entablature to cross wing ridge stack. Two storeys and attic. Main east-west range possibly rebuilt in C19 with cross wing to west. Street elevation; wide four-panelled door with flat canopy to left hand, and two three-light and one four-light casement windows with wooden lintels; one three-light and two, two-light first floor casement windows. Cross wing with parapet gables and moulded stone copings; one altered three-light casement window with wooden lintel and one first floor three-light ovolo-mullioned casement window with moulded cornice, two similar two-light windows in east elevation. Interior: Stop-chamfered ceiling beams with circular patterns on soffit in cross wing, open hearths with chamfered mantel beams; stone pavings to hall.

R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p83

Listing NGR: TL0878193811

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
54861
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 83

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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