Townsend Farmhouse
TOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, 11, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162841
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, 11, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162841
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, 11, HIGH 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.
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:
- TOWNSEND FARMHOUSE, 11, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upwood and the Raveleys
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26043 82925
Details
TL 28 SE UPWOOD AND THE RAVELEYS HIGH STREET
(East Side) UPWOOD
7/68 No 11 (Townsend Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C18. Local yellow gault brick, English bond, with plain tiled roof with tumbled parapet gable ends on kneelers. Flush end stacks.
Contemporary kitchen and dairy wing at the rear forms L-plan. Cellar, two storeys and attic. Symmetrical facade of five flush frame twelve pane hung sashes, mid C19, under flat arches. Central doorway with shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice supporting a narrow hood. Six raised and fielded panelled door with three-light rectangular fanlight. Kitchen wing of similar brick with hipped, tiled roof and projecting side stack with offsets. Late C2O addition in re-entrant angle. Interior: Opposing front and rear doorway. The rear doorway is also late C18. Original staircase with moulded rail and square, fluted newels but with mid C19 stick balusters. Two late C18 shouldered fireplace surrounds one with pulvinated frieze, at first floor. One grey and one white marble fireplace, mid C19 at ground floor. Dormers removed.
Listing NGR: TL2604382925
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54702
- 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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