The Old Court House
THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ERMINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162843
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ERMINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162843
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ERMINE 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:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE, ERMINE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30199 59006
Details
TL 3058-3158 CAXTON ERMINE STREET TL 35 NW (East Side)
12/72 7/72 The Old Court House
II
House, formerly the divisional Magistrates Court, Police Station and Prison. Built in 1859 for £755, architect, Mr Clarke of Newmarket, builder Mr W Gray of Litlington. Yellow gault brick with hipped slate roofs to rear. One storey court house and two storey ranges to rear accommodating prison cells and police offices with domestic quarters. Street elevation; symmetrical facade with heavily rusticated blind arcade of three 'bays' with recessed panels and round headed cast iron windows, (some replaced c.1940). Dentil brick enrichment to deep eaves cornice with panelled parapet and shaped pediment. Original entrance in flanking closed porches in angles with four-panelled door and fanlight in round headed arch to right hand, C20 inserted window in left hand entrance. Interior: the original plan has been slightly altered by closing some doorways and removing some partitions. The Magistrates met at the Crown Inn before the court house was built. It was in use up to 1969.
V.C.H., Vol. V, p33 Cambridgeshire Quarter Sessions Minute Book. C.R.O. Brown, J. Caxton Now and Then, 1984
Listing NGR: TL3019959006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51100
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 33
Brown, J, Caxton Now and Then, (1984)
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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