Stirtloe House
STIRTLOE HOUSE, STIRTLOE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130303
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Stirtloe House
- Statutory Address:
- STIRTLOE HOUSE, STIRTLOE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130303
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Stirtloe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STIRTLOE HOUSE, STIRTLOE LANE
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:
- STIRTLOE HOUSE, STIRTLOE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 19593 66831
Details
TL 16 NE
1/5
BUCKDEN,
STIRTLOE LANE (SOUTH SIDE),
STIRTLOE HOUSE
(FORMERLY LISTED UNDER LUCKS LANE)
24.10.51
GV II
Late C18 brick house of five bays. L-plan with small vaulted
brick cellar, two storeys. Tripped slate roofs and end stacks.
Extended in early C19 by two bays at north and south and to rear
of main range. Brick faces rendered. West facing facade.
Plain parapet. Seven C19 first floor recessed hung sash windows
with glazing bars and four similar ground floor windows.
Central, open, semi-circular, Roman Doric stone portico
approached by semi-circular steps. (Stone portico to rear
facade has a broken pediment supported on Doric columns). Eight
raised and fielded panels to C18 door in recessed round headed
arch. Fanlight with interlaced glazing bars. Rear kitchen
wing, originally with sunken floor has a reset C17 mullion and
transome window. Interior has largely C19 details; open string
staircase, and six panelled mahogany doors in architraved
doorcases.
Home of Lancelot Brown from 1784-90, son of 'Capability Brown'.
VCH Huntingdonshire, p266
Listing NGR: TL1959366831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54331
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 266
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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