The Crown House
THE CROWN HOUSE, 65, ERMINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162925
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Crown House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROWN HOUSE, 65, ERMINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162925
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Crown House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CROWN HOUSE, 65, 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 CROWN HOUSE, 65, 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:
- TL3034058388
Details
TL 3058-3158
12/78
31.8.62
CAXTON
ERMINE STREET
(West Side)
No. 65 (The Crown House)
GV
II*
House formerly The Crown Coaching Inn. C16 or early C17 with later C17 and
C18 alterations. C17 red brick, painted in street elevation, and exposed and
plastered timber-frame. Hipped plain tile roofs. Two ridge stacks to left
hand and one stack to right hand. Two storeys with attics and cellars.
U-plan with rear wings enclosing yard and with evidence of galleries to south
and east; carriageway to north of centre and coeval with north range; south
and west ranges late C17. Street elevation: Plastered plinth and double
brick band between floors. Two first floor and one ground floor blind
windows, five first floor twelve-paned slightly recessed hung sash windows
and four similar ground floor windows. Entrance to left hand approached by
stone and brick steps with six-panelled C19 door and panelled reveals to
doorcase with canopy on shaped brackets. Carriageway with early C17 carved
four-centred headed arch; half-glazed door to right hand. Rear elevation
has enclosed gallery to east and partly demolished and enclosed gallery to
south; three wooden pillars survive. Interior: Red brick corner hearths
with elliptical brick arches and one with a mantel beam, in south and rear
ranges; large inglenook hearth to north range. Wall painting of panelled
design in first floor room. C17 door with cockshead hinges. Short flight of
original attic stair with flat balusters. The Crown Inn was the collecting
Post Office for north Cambridgeshire by the end of the C18, and was used as a
Magistrates Court until 1839, it ceased to be an inn c.1860.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p39, mon.ll
V.C.H., Vol. V, pp 26, 27, 33
Brown J.
Caxton Now and Then 1984
Listing NGR: TL3034058388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 26 27 33
Brown, J, Caxton Now and Then, (1984)
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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