Little Paxton Hall
LITTLE PAXTON HALL, GREAT NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162401
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Little Paxton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE PAXTON HALL, GREAT NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162401
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Little Paxton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE PAXTON HALL, GREAT NORTH ROAD
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:
- LITTLE PAXTON HALL, GREAT NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Paxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18727 62898
Details
LITTLE PAXTON THE GROVE TL 16 SE 3/13 PAXTON HALL 24.10.51 GV II*
Mid C17 house with two cross-wings to North and South with c.1738 insertion between the wings of five bays. Later C19 additions to South. Red brick, and rendered brick with limestone dressings. Plain tile roofs; parapet gables to East of cross-wings and hipped to West. Side stacks rebuilt in red brick. Two storeys with attics. West facing C18 facade; nine bays with cross-wings slightly projecting. Plastered, panelled parapet, with moulded stone cornice with dentil enrichment. Seven gabled dormer windows with alternate segmental and triangular pediments. C19 hung sash windows with glazing bars in recessed, moulded stone architraves with stone sills at both floor levels. Central replacement panelled door in stone architrave with dentils and broken triangular pediment supported on scroll brackets. Stone plinth. Two rainwater heads dated 1738. Interior has some original C18 moulded ceiling cornices and plastered panels; exposed timber-frame partition wall, newel post to original C17 dog-leg stair, C17 side purlin roofs, with later C18 roof extension to West facade. R.C.H.M. (Hunts.), p203
Listing NGR: TL1872762898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 203
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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