Hemingford Grey House
HEMINGFORD GREY HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163066
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hemingford Grey House
- Statutory Address:
- HEMINGFORD GREY HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-03-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/11618/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163066
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Hemingford Grey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEMINGFORD GREY HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- HEMINGFORD GREY HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemingford Grey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2925870892
Details
1.
5140
TL 29 70
16/1
24.10.51
HEMINGFORD GREY
CHURCH STREET
(north side)
Hemingford Grey House
(formerly listed as Grey Hall Hotel)
II*
2.
Dated 1697. (VCH) House with service range to south-east and modern additions to
south-west. Square plan. Red brick. Hipped roof of old, plain tiles with modillioned
eaves cornice. Two internal stacks of similar brick with capping and string courses.
Two-storeys and attics. Symmetrical north-east and north-west elevations, each with
two dormers with hung sashes with glazing bars in cambered heads and later gables.
Five window ranges of C19 hung sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves with
slightly curved heads in segmental headed arches. North-east doorway with flat,
moulded hood with scroll brackets and panelled soffit. Door with six raised and
fielded panels with two glazed upper lights. Three curved steps to north-west doorway
with plain shell hood on scroll brackets with carved foliate decoration. Door of
two raised and fielded panels with glazed upper half and rectangular fan-light.
Interior north-west ground-floor room has original raised and fielded panelling and
moulded cornice. Circa 1720 main staircase of two flights, open string with carved
brackets and three turned balusters to each tread, moulded rail. Late C17 back
staircase with closed string, turned balusters and square section newel posts.
Late C17 service range to south-east. Timber-framed, rendered. Old, plain tile roof,
hipped to right hand. Ridge stack of small, hand made bricks. Two-storeys. Two
ranges of four hung sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves with plain
plaster margins. Modern red brick extension to service range. Tiled roof, hipped to
left hand. Two-storeys. Similar windows.
(RCHM Huntingdonshire p 136).
Listing NGR: TL2925870892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 136
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1948)
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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