Tunbridge Farmhouse
Tunbridge Farmhouse, 116, Low Road, Burwell, CB25 0EJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161016
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tunbridge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Tunbridge Farmhouse, 116, Low Road, Burwell, CB25 0EJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161016
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tunbridge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tunbridge Farmhouse, 116, Low Road, Burwell, CB25 0EJ
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:
- Tunbridge Farmhouse, 116, Low Road, Burwell, CB25 0EJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 58470 66731
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 January 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
TL 5866
15/26
BURWELL
LOW ROAD (west side)
No 116, Tunbridge Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as No 116 (Turnbridge Farmhouse))
II
Farmhouse, early and late C17. Originally the manor house of St Omars manor. Two storeys and attics. Early C17 clunch cross-wing to north with quoins and parapet to west rebuilt in small local, late C17 bricks; flint foundations and brick band to stepped clunch plinth; some original ovolo mullioned casement windows, and C19 or modern replacements. Range to south late C17, small local bricks coursed in English bond; brick plinth, sawtooth eaves cornice and parapet gable to south; roof raised in C19 on front elevation; windows sealed or with later, C19 replacements, one original casement with lattice lights in south gable. Two fine, square stacks with sawtooth cornice and one, or two blind round-headed arches on each face. Stack to right hand behind ridge has lower courses of clunch. Front elevation has three, three-light first floor casement windows, and three ground floor casement windows. Cross wing has two stone mullioned three-light casement windows. Main entrance to left of centre has brick pilasters supporting a projecting hood of three recessed brick courses with a lead cover. It is possible that the cross-wing was the parlour wing to an earlier hall replaced late in C17 by the south range. Interior has large sealed cooking hearth and exposed floor frame.
RCHM, North-East Cambs, p.35, mon. 41
Lucas C. The Fenman's World, p.101, 1930
Pevsner. Buildings of England Series, p.312
Listing NGR: TL5847066731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48953
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lucas, C, The Fenmans World, (1928)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 312
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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